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THE 



A 

Treatife on Bibliography, 

COMPRISING A 

SELECT AND DESCRIPTIVE LIST 

OF 

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL WORKS; 

TO WHICH ARE ADDED, 

^Mt\)ts of i^ublitfe Stliraries. 

lllujl rated with Engravings, 

By REUBEN A. GUILD, A.M. 

Librarian of Brown Univerjity, Providence y R. I. 



Non minima Pars eft Eruditionis bonos nofTe Libros." 



NEJVrORK: 
CHARLES B. NORTON 

AGENT FOR LIBRARIES. 
MDCCCLVIII. 




Entered according to A(£t of Congrefs, in the Year 1858, by 

Charles B. Norton, 

In the Clerk's Office of the Dilbid Court of the United States 

for tlie Southern Diftrift of New York. 



Edition, 500. lo Copies on large Paper. 



^.\ 



TO 

Professor CHARLES C. JEWETT, 

THE 

AccompliJIjed Bibliographer a7td Scholar^ 
TH I S WO RK 

IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED, 

AS A 

TOKEN OF LONG CONTINUED FRIENDSHIP, 

AND 

IN GRATEFUL ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF VALUED 
ACADEMICK AND PROFESSIONAL INSTRUCTION. 



" If you are troubled with a Pride of Accuracy, 
and would have it completely taken out of you, print a 
Catalogue." — Stevens. 



PREFACE. 




HE following Work has been un- 
dertaken with a View, afide from 
perfonal Confiderations, to the Improve- 
ment of our publick Libraries. 
The First Part conlifts of a defcriptive 
Lift of four hundred and ninety-five feparate Works, 
Gomprifing nineteen hundred and fixteen Volumes 
of fuch bibliographical Books as are confidered to 
be of the firft Importance for a Library Apparatus. 
The Lift could eafily have been extended, had it 
been thought defirable to make it general and 
complete, rather than feled:, including fuch only 
as are regarded as indilpenfable to the Knowledge 
of Books, and to the efficient Growth and Manage- 
ment of a publick Library. 

The Second I^art contains hiftorical Sketches of 
fourteen of the largeft Publick Libraries in this 
Country and in Europe. Efpecial Attention has 
been given to the Charader and general Arrange- 



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ments of the Libraries defcribed, and to detailed 
Accounts of the Buildings appropriated to their 
Ufe. The largcll: Space has been given to the 
Britiih Mufeum, the Library of which is generally 
acknowledged to be the befl: managed one of its 
Kind in the World. Appended to this Account is 
an Article compiled from the North Briti/Ji Review, 
giving Details refpeding the daily Adminiftration 
of this noble Colledlion, from which valuable Sug- 
geftions may be derived for the Management of 
fmaller Libraries, whether publick or private. 

The fpecial Acknowledgments of the Author 
are hereby made to Mr. John H. Hickcox, Afliftant 
Librarian of the New York State Library at Albany, 
for his generous AlTiftance in reviling and enlarging 
the Author's Account of faid Library ; grateful 
Acknowledgments are alfo made to the following 
Gentlemen, for recent Information in regard to 
other Libraries, viz : John L. Sibley, A. M. of 
Cambridge, Mafs.; Wm. F. Poole, A. M. of Bofton; 
Prof Charles C. Jewett, of Roxbury ; Prof George 
P. Fiflier, of New Haven ; Jofeph G. Cogfwell, 
LL. D. of New York ; Lloyd P. Smith, Efq. of 
Philadelphia ; and Prof Wm. E. Jillfon, of Wafli- 
ington. 



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The Work has many Errours both of Omiffion 
and Commiffion ; thefe, however, a Work of this 
Character mufl always have to a greater or lefs 
Extent. Conftituting as it does a Manual of 
Information, or rather the SOURCES of Informa- 
tion upon the moll important Points connedied with 
the Increafe and Management of Libraries, and 
with Books in general, it is hereby fubmitted to the 
Publick, with the confident Hope that it may 
prove acceptable and ufeful. 

Brown Univerlity, May 4, i 




LIST OF ENGRAVINGS. 

LIBRARY EDIFICES. 

Page. 

1. Library of Harvard Univcrjity, . . . .119 

2. Yale College Library, . . . . . 128 

3. Library of Brown Univerfity, .... 137 

4. Philadelphia and Loganian Libraries, . . . 149 

5. Bojlon Athenaeum, . . . . . .161 

6. Capitol at Wajhington, . . . . . 169 

7. Smithjbnian Injlitution at Wajhington, . . • ^73 

8. AJlor Library at New York, . . . . 185 

9. Interiour of the Ajlor Library, ..... 199 

10. Publick Library of Bojlon, .... 200 

11. Redwood Library at Newport, . . . .217 

12. Frankfort City Library, . . . . , 227 

13. Royal Library at Munich, ..... 228 

14. Imperial Library at St. Peterjburg, . . , 234 

15. Royal Library at Berlin, ..... 242 

16. Britijh Mufeum, . , , . . 246 



CONTENTS. 

PART FIRST. 
BIBLIOGRAPHY. 

Page. 

TNTRODUCTION, 3 tO 8 

-^Descriptive List, . . . . 9 " 114 

I. Books containing Lijls of bibliographical 

Works, 9 " II 

II. Elementary Bibliographies, . . . 11 " 13 

III. The Origin and Progrejs of Writing, Manu- 

Jcripts and Diplomaticks, Monograms and 
Autographs, Materials for Writing or 
Printing, Engraving on Wood, Cop- 
per, &c., 14 " 22 

1. Writing, .... 14 

2. Manujcripts and Diplomaticks, . 16 

3. Monograms and Autographs, . 18 

4. Materials for Writing or Printing, 18 

5. Engraving on Copper, Wood, 

Stone, &c., . . . 19 

IV. The Origin and Progrejs of Printing, early 

printed Books, and Book Binding, . 22 " 31 

1. Printing and early printed Books, 22 

2. Book Binding, ... 30 
V. Rare, Anonymous, Pjeudonymous, and Pro- 
hibited Books, . . . . . 31 " 40 

1. Rare, • • • -31 

2. Anonymous and Pjeudonymous, 37 

3. Prohibited, . , . * 39 
VI. ClaJOlfication of Books, and Management of 

Libraries, or Library Economy, . , 40 " 46 



VII. Library Edifices, and Hijlory and Statijlicks 

of Libraries, . • • . • 

VIII. Oriental and ClaJJical Languages, 

IX. Bibliography of Modern Nations, or National 

Bibliograph}', ..... 

1. America, .... 

2. Great Britain, . • . . 

3. France, .... 

4. Germany, .... 

5. Italy, 

6. Spain, Portugal and Northern Eu- 

rope, .... 

X. General Bibliographies, 

XI. Bibliography of Particular Sciences and 
Branches of Literature, or Special Biblio- 
graphies, ..... 
XII. Biographical Dictionaries, 
XIII. Bibliographical Periodicals, 



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PART SECOND. 
LIBRARIES 



Introduction, .... 

Library of Harvard Univer/it}', 

Yale College Library, 

Library of Brown Univerjity, 

Library Company of Philadelphia, add the Lo 

ganian Library, 
Bojlon Athenoeum, .... 
Library of Congrejs, .... 
State Library at Albany, 
Ajlor Library at New York, 
Publick Library of Bojlon, 
Imperial Library at Paris, 
Royal Library at Munich, 
Imperial Library at St. Peter/burg, 
Royal Library at Berlin, 
Library of the Briti/h Mufeum, , 



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Part first. 



BIBLIO GR APHY 



" In eftimating the Importance of the Study of Biblio- 
graphy, we muft confider how much it would promote 
the Progrefs of Learning, by fliowing what has been 
attempted and accomplifhed, and what yet remains to be 
achieved ; how much by rebuking the Rafhnefs which 
rufhes into Authorfliip, ignorant of what others have writ- 
ten, adding to the Mafs of Books without adding to the 
Sum of Knowledge ; how much, by giving Confidence 
to the earneft Student, who fears no Labour, fo that it bring 
him to the Height at which he aims — the Summit of 
Learning in the Branch to which he devotes him- 
felf." — Jewett. 




BIBLIOGRAPHY 



IBLIOGRAPHY, from b,/3x.ov, a Book, 
and ypacpw, I defcribe, fignifies literally 
the Defcription of Books. Among the 
Greeks, the Term BifSxtoypacpia iigniiied 
only the Writing or Tranfcription of Books ; 
and a Bibliographer with them was merely 
a Writer of Books, in the Senfe of a Copyifl. 
The French Term Bibliographie was long ufed 
to fignify only an Acquaintance with ancient Writ- 
ings, and with the Art of deciphering them. In its 
modern and more extended Senfe, Bibliography 
may be defined to be the Science or Knowledge 
OF Books, in regard to the Materials of which 
they are compofed, — their different Degrees of 
Rarity, Curiofity, reputed or real Value, — the 




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Subjedls difcufled by their refpcdlive Authors, — 
and the Rank which they ought to hold in 
the Claflification of a Library. It is therefore 
divided into two Branches. The firft of which has 
Reference to the Contents of Books, and may be 
termed for Want of a better Phrafe, Intel- 
lectual BibUography ; the fecond treats of their 
external Chara(5ler, the Hiftory of particular Copies, 
Editions, &c. and may be termed Material 
Bibliography. The Object of the firft Kind is to 
acquaint literary Men with the moft important 
Books in every Department of Study, either by 
Means of Classed Catalogues fimply, or by 
fimilar or alphabetical Catalogues, accompanied 
by critical and bibliographical Remarks. 

This Species of Knowledge has been cultivated 
moft thoroughly and fuccefsfully in Italy, Germany, 
and France, to which Countries, and efpecially to 
the latter, we are indebted for the mofl popular 
and ufeful Treatifes in Bibliography. This is un- 
doubtedly owing in a great Meafure to the free 
Accefs which is allowed the Publick to all their 
large Libraries, the great Number of fine private 
Collediions, and the Familiarity of their Scholars 
and Literary Men with Books of all Ages and Coun- 
tries. The Refearches of Barbier and Brunet, 



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Ebert and Ersch, Tiraboschi and Gamba, will 
ever be held in grateful Remembrance by all Lovers 
of Learning. 

In Great Britain Bibliography as a Science has 
received lefs Attention than upon the Continent, 
although valuable Works have been produced by 
HoRNE and Lowndes, Dibdin and Watt, which 
will compare favorably with thofe of their European 
Contemporaries. In this Country the Science has 
been very naturally negleded. Owing however to 
the general Diffufion of Knowledge and Wealth, 
and the rapid Formation and Increafe of Libraries 
of every Defcription, it is now receiving increafed 
Attention ; and the Importance of its Claims as a 
praSiical Science are fuccefsfully urged upon the 
Publick by our leading literary and educational 
Men. Already we have Bibliographers, fuch as 
Cogswell, and Ticknor, and Jewett, whofe 
profefTional Attainments are known and appreciated 
even in the older Countries. 

It is the Fault of many of the Votaries of this 
Science,^ efpecially in France, that they have exag- 
gerated the Value of their favourite Purfuit, far 
beyond that Rank to which it is fairly entitled in 
the Scale of human Knowledge ; and Peignot, 
i\cHARD, and others (whofe Writings are noticed in 



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the Courfe of this Treatife) have reprcfented It as 
one of the mod extenfive and even univerfal 
of all Sciences. Nothing certainly can be more 
abfurd than to view it in this Light, merely becaufe 
it treats of Books, and becaufe Books are the Ve- 
hicles of all Sorts of Knowledge. Yet this is the 
only Foundation to be difcovered for thefe extra- 
vagant Reprefentations, that tend, as in all other 
Cafes of exaggerated Pretenfion, to bring Ridicule 
upon a Subjecft, which, were its Nature and Obje<fts 
corredly defined, could not fail to appear highly 
important and ufeful. 

Conformably to what has now been ftated, it is 
the Province of the Bibliographer to be acquainted 
with the Materials of which Books are compofed, 
their different Forms or Sizes, the Number of 
Pages, the typographical Character, the Number 
and Defcription of the Plates, the Completenefs, 
the Corredlnefs, and all the other external Pecu- 
liarities or Diflindtions of an Edition. He knows 
not only the befl Treatifes that have been written 
on any particular Topick, and their comparative 
Value, but alfo the various Editions of Books, and 
the important Refped:s in which one Edition differs 
from another; when and from what Caufe Omiffions 
have been made. Deficiencies fupplied. Errors cor- 



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red:ed, and Additions fubjoined. When Books 
have been publifhed either anonymoufly or pfeu- 
donymoufly, he indicates the real Name of the 
concealed Author ; and, with regard to the Rarity 
of Books, he is acquainted with all the Caufes 
which have contributed to render them fcarce. 
Finally, as a Library deftitute of Arrangement is a 
" Chaos, and not a Cofmos," he difpofes the Books 
which it comprifes, in fuch an Order, as will pre- 
fent an agreeable Appearance to the Eye ; and, in 
compiling a Catalogue, he affigns to them that 
Place which they ought to hold in the Syftem of 
Claffification adopted for arranging a Library. 

Such are the legitimate Duties of the Biblio- 
grapher, evidently requiring a Variety and Extent 
of Knowledge, feldom if ever polTelTed by a fingle 
Individual. Hence different Writers have difcuffed 
particular Topicks of Bibliography ; and from their 
united Labours can be colledied the multifarious In- 
formation requilite to conftitute fuch a Biblio- 
grapher as has been defcribed. A Colled:ion of 
all the Works of this Kind extant, including 
General and Special Bibliography, Literary Hiftory, 
and a certain Clafs of Periodicals and Univerfal 
Biography, would, it has been eftimated, exceed 
twenty thoufand Volumes. Indeed Namur in his 



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Bibliographic, publilfhed in 1838, gives a Lill ot 
upwards of ten thoufand feparate Works. We 
propofe in the further Progrefs of this Treatife, 
to give a Select List of the heft Sources of 
Information, fo far as we are acquainted, upon the 
mofl important Branches of Bibhography, arrang- 
ing them in alphabetical Order under their appro- 
priate Heads, and adding fuch Defcriptions and 
explanatory Remarks, as may feem beft calculated 
to render the whole a ufeful Manual or Guide for 
Inquirers in this Department of Knowledge. 



DESCRIPTIVE LIST 



/. Books containing Lijis of Bibliographical 
Works. 

COGSWELL (J. G.). Alphabetical Index 
to the Aftor Library, or Catalogue, with 
fhort Titles, of the Books now collected and 
of the propofed Accellions, as fubmitted to the 
Truftees of the Library for their Approval. Jan. 
1851. 8°. New York. 1851. 

Compiled by the Superintendent to ferve as a Guide in coliefting 
Books for the Aftor Library. Prefixed is a claffed Lift of Works upon 
Bibliography occupying 30 Pages. The Department of Bibliography in 
the Aftor Library, has been founded by Dr. Cogfwell, and continued at 
his Expenfe. It is far more complete than any Colleftion of the Kind in 
the Country. The Lift gives fhort Titles merely, without Dates. 

Namur (M. p.). Bibliographie Paleographico- 
Diplomatico-Bibliologique Generale, ou Reper- 
toire Syftematique, &c. Z Vols. 8°. Liege. 

1838. 

Giving the Titles of 10,236 feparate Works relating to Paleography or 
Writing, Diplomaticks or Manufcripts, the Hiftory of Printing and the 
Book Trade, Bibliography, the Hiftory of Libraries, Notices of Pe- 
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riodicals, &:c. No Work extant contains Co complete a Lift of this Clafs 
of Books. The Titles, however, are frequently inaccurate, and the 
Dcfcriptions arc few and exceedingly meagre. The fyftematick and 
alphabetical Indexes at the End of each Volume greatly enhance the Value 
of the Work. 

Peignot (Gabriel). Repertoire Bibliographique 
Univerfel ; contenant la Notice raifonne des 
Bibliographies fpeciales, &c. &c. 8°. Paris. 
1812. 

Peignot is one of the ableft of French Bibliographers, and by his 
various Writings, has contributed moft eflcntially to the Illuftration of the 
Study of Bibliography. This elaborate Work, not only gives an in- 
ftrudlive Account of fpecial Bibliographies publiflied in his Day, but alfo an 
Account of a great Number of other Works upon Bibliography in its 
various Branches, Literary Hiftory, &c. 

See alfo Bohn's Ge?2eral Catalogue, Vol. I. 8°. 
Lond. 1847, pp. 409-441 ; Horne's IntrodiiBioji 
to the Study of Bibliography, Vol. II. pp. 403-742 ; 
Brunet's Manuel du Libraire, Vol. V. ; and Petz- 
holdt's Anzeiger fur Bibliographie imd Biblio- 
thekwiffenfchaft, a very important bibliographical 
Periodical, commenced in 1 840, and publilhed 
monthly at Drefden, making annually an o6tavo 
Volume. A complete Lift of all the Bibliographical 
Works which have been publiflied in any Language 
down to the prefent Time, with full defcriptive Notes 
in Englifh, would do much towards the more general 
Cultivation of the Science among us. The Pre- 
paration of fuch a Lift was commenced by Prof C. 
C. Jewett, while Librarian of the Smithfonian 
Inftitution at Wafhington. No one is better quali- 



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fied than he for an Undertaking of this Charadier, 
and it is earneftly hoped that his prefent multifarious 
and important Duties may not interfere with its 
ultimate and^ fuccefsful Accomplifliment. In the 
Number of the A?2zeiger for May, 1857, Dr. 
Petzholdt announces a Work which he has in 
Preparation, entitled Bihliotheca Bibliographic a, 
Bibliographifches Handbuch fur T)eutfchland. This 
is intended to be a Work like Peignot's or 
Namur's, continued to the lateft Dates, and en- 
riched with critical and bibliographical Notes. It 
will undoubtedly be executed well and promptly. 



//. Kle?nentary Bibliograph 



les. 



UNDER this Head, we defign to point out a 
few of thofe Works more particularly worthy 
of Notice, which treat generally of all 
Matters appertaining to Bibliography. It is a 
Matter of Regret that no Book prefenting a well- 
written, judicious, and compreheniive Digeftof thefe 
Matters, has been recently publifhed. The fol- 
lowing, however, contains much curious and ufeful 
Information. 

AcHARD (C. F.). Cours Elementaire de Biblio- 
, graphic. 3 Vols. 8°. Marfeille. 1806-7. 

' The moft ufeful Part of this Work, is the Colleftion of the different 
Syftems recommended by De Bure, PeigAot, Barbier, and others, for the 
ClafTifying of Books. We learn from the Introduftion, that M. Francis 
DE Neufcheteau, when,Minifter of the Interiour, ordered the Librarians 



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of all the Departments to deliver Lcdures on Bibliography ; but that the 
Plan failed, thcfc Librarians having been found incapable of prclcfting 
upon their Vocation. 

BouLARD (M. S.). Traite Elementaire de Biblio- 
graphic. 8". Paris. 1806. 

This Work difcuflcs the Qualifications of Bibliographers, the principal 
Works of which a Library ought to confift, the Rarity and Depreciation 
of Books, the Choice oi' Books and Editions, the Invention of Printing, 
the Formation of a Library, Manufcripts, Sec. &c. 

Denis (Michael). Einleitung in die Blicherkunde. 

2'^ Ed. 2 Vols. 4. Wien. 1795-6. 

This Work, although like every other of Denis grcady eftecmcd in 
Europe, has never been tranflated from the German. It embodies the 
Subftance of a Courfe of academical Leftures delivered by the Author 
upon the Hillory of Literature, as well as upon the Subftances, Forms and 
Claffification of Books. 

Denis (F.) and Pincon (P.). Nouveau Manuel 
de Bibliographic Univerfelle. 8°. Paris. 1857. 

One of the Manuels Roret. 

Dibdin (T. p.). Bibliographical Decameron ; or 
Ten Days' pleafant Dilcourfe upon Illuminated 
Manufcripts, and Subjeds connedled with early 
Engraving, Typography and Bibliography. 3 
Vols. Royal 8°. London. 18 17. 

Elegantly printed, and embellifhed with many fine Engravings. It is 
now exceedingly fcarce, and too dear for ordinary Purchafcrs. The 
Author was an Enthufiaft in this Department of Learning, and his numer- 
ous Publications are indifpenfable to the bibliographical Student. 

FoRTiA d'Urban. Nouveau Syfteme Alphabetique 
de Bibliographie Alphabetique. 12°. Paris. 
1822. 



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HoRNE (T. H.). An introdudiion to the Study of 
Bibliography ; to which is prefixed a Memoir on 
the Publick Libraries of the Antients. Illuftrated 
with Engravings. 2 Vols. 8°. London. 18 14. 

The mofl: ufeful Book of the Kind that has been publifhed in the Eng- 
hfh Language, and to which we are greatly indebted in the Preparation 
of this Work. It comprifes a fummary Account of the Materials ufed 
for Writing in all Ages and Countries, the Origin and Progrefs of Printing, 
Remarks on the Forms of Books, different Styles of Binding, the Knowledge 
of Books, and the Caufes of their relative Value and Scarcity, the Prin- 
ciples which fhould govern in the Arrangement and Claffification of a 
Library, &c. &c. The moil: extenfive Divifion of the Work is appro- 
priated to a Notice of the principal Writers who have treated on the 
different Branches of Bibliography. It contains the fulleft Account that 
we have ever feen of Catalogues of Libraries both Britifh and foreign. 
The Specimens of early Typography, and of the Vignettes and Mono- 
grams of the early Printers, are neady executed. A new Edition of this 
Work, incorporating the Suggeftions and Improvements of a later Period, 
is greatly needed. 

MoRTiLLARo (Vincenzo). Studio Bibliographico. 

2^1 Ed. 8°. Palermo. 1832. 
Peignot (Gabriel). Didiionnaire Raifonne de 

Bibliologie. (With Supplement). 3 Vols. 8°. 

Paris. 1802-4. 

Containing ift. An Explanation of Terms relative to Bibhography, 
Typography, the Languages, x'\rchives, Manufcripts, Medals, Antiquities, 
&c. 2d. Detailed hiftorical Nodces of the principal Libraries, ancient 
and modern, the different Sefts of Philofophers, the mofl celebrated 
Printers, and Bibliographers, including a Lift of their Works. 3d. An 
Explanation of the different bibliographical Syftems, &c. Peignot alfo 
publifhed in 1 800 an oftavo Volume upon the Knowledge of Books, their 
Forms, Edidons, &c. &c., called Manuel Bibliographlque ; eu EJfai fur 
les Bibliotheques Anciennes et Modernes, etc., which may properly be re- 
garded as an elementary Work. 

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///. T^he Origi72 a?2d Progrefs of Writings 
Ma7iufc7^tpts a?id Diplo?}iattchs^ Mo?io- 
gra^ns and Autographs^ Materials for 
Writing or Printings Engraving 07i 
Woody Copper^ Stone^ &^c. 

THE Subjed:s belonging to this Se(5lion have 
furniflied Topicks for much elaborate Re- 
fearch, and fome of them for Speculations 
and Difputes not yet brought to any fatiffad:ory 
Conclufion. Our Objed: in this Work is to in- 
dicate the Inquiries which belong to the different 
Departments of Bibliography, together with fome 
of the beft Guides to Information upon each, leav- 
ing the Difcuffion of the Topicks themfelves to 
feparate and more extended Articles in their appro- 
priate Places in Encyclopedias like the Britannica, 
Metropolitan, or New American, now being pub- 
lilhed in New York by the Appletons. 

I . Writing. 

AsTLE (Thomas). The Origin and Progrefs of 
Writing, as well hieroglyphick as elementary. 
Illuftrated by Engravings. 2^ Ed. 4°. London. 

1803. 

" The completefl: Work on the Subjeft of Writing extant in this or 
any other Language." — Home. The Chapters on Tranfcribcrs and 
Illuminators, and the Inftrumcnts, Inks and other Matters, which they 



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made Ufe of in their Operations, will be found cfpecially intcrcfting to the 
BibHographer. A third Edition has been rccendy publifhed in London, 
by Rowe, in one Volume, royal quarto. 

Champollion-Figeac (J. J.). Precis du Syfteme 
Hieroglyphique des Anciens Egyptiens, ou Re- 
cherches fur les Elements premiers de cette 
Ecriture Sacree, avec Planches. 2^ Ed. Royal 
8°. Paris. 1828. 

Dearborn (N. S.) The American Text Book 
for Letters, with Copious Remarks on the vari- 
ous Letters now in Ufe, together with, the moft 
Corred: Method of producing them with the 
Pen, Brufh, Chifel or Graver. Oblong 8°. 
Bofton. 1858. 

This is the fecond Edition of an important Work, giving the various 
Styles of letters now in Ufe on plain or ornamen-tal Prindng, Engraving, 
or Sign Painting, fuch as Block Letters, German Text, Square Text, 
Open Flower Leaf, Roman Letters, Ornamented or Illuminated Capitals, 
Wridng Print Letters, &c. A large Number of Styles are given, all of 
them beaudfully and accurately defigned and executed. 

FoRTiA d' Urban (Le Marquis de). Elfai fur 
' rOrigine de I'Ecriture, fur fon Introducftion dans 

la Grece, et fon ufage jufqu'au Temps d'Homere. 

8°. Paris. 1832. 

Fry (Edmund). Pantographia ; containing accurate 
Copies of all the known Alphabets in the World, 
together with an Englifh Explanation of the 
Force or Power of each Letter. Royal 8°. 
London. 1799. 

This highly intereiVmg Work, fays Home, is the Refult of fixteen 



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Years' Refcarch ; the Specimens of Chara6lers arc executed with great 

Ncatncfs. 

SiLVESTRE (J. B.). Paleographie Univerfdle. Col- 
led:ion de Fac-Simile d'Ecritures de tons les 
Peuples, et tons les Temps, etc., et accompagne 
d'Explications hiftoriques et delcriptives par M. 
M. Champollion-Figeac et Aime Champollion 
Fils. 4 Vols. Folio. Paris. 1839-41. 

" Ouvrage capital, execute avec le plus grand Luxe." — Brunet. 

Wailly (M. N. de). Elements de Paleographie. 
2 Vols. Royal 40. Paris. 1838. 

A very handfomely printed Work of 1 168 Pages. The Second Vol- 
ume contains Plates and a copious general Index. 

2. Manuscripts and Di plomaticks. 

Delandine (A. F.) Manufcrits de la Bibliotheque 
de Lyon. Precedes d'un EfTai hiftorique fur les 
Manufcrits en general, avec une Bibliographic 
fpeciale des Catalogues qui les ont decrits. 3 
Vols. 8°. Lyon. 1812. 

Ebert (F. a.) Zur Handfchriftenkunde. 2 Vols. 
8°. Leipzig. 1825-7. 

Humphreys (H. N.) The Illuminated Books of 
the Middle Ages ; an Account of the Develop- 
ment and Progrefs of the Art of Illumination, as 
a diftind: Branch of Pi(5torial Ornamentation, &c. 
Illuftrated by a Series of Examples, of the Size of 
the Originals, by Owen Jones. Folio. London. 
1849. 

A fplendid and cpftly Work, 



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Langlois (E. H.). ElTai fur Calligraphie des 
Manufcrits du Moyen-Age, et fur les Ornements 
des premiers Livres d'Heures imprimes. Royal 
8°. Rouen. 1841. 

Mabillon (Jean). De Re Diplomatica Libri VI ; 
cum Supplemento. 3^ Ed. 2 Vols. Folio. (Fine 
Plates). Neapoli. 1789. 

MoNTFAUcoN (Dom. Bernard de). Bibliotheca 
Bibliothecarum Manufcriptorum nova. 2 Vols. 
Folio. Paris. 1739. 

This is a Catalogue of all the Manufcripts of which the Author, one 
of the moft diftinguiflied Savans of the i8th Century, could obtain any 
Knowledge, during forty Years of affiduous Refearch in the principal 
Libraries of Europe. The Manufcripts in the various Libraries are 
arranged in Clafles feparately. Each Volume has a complete Index. 

Nouveau Traite de Diplomatique. Par deux Re- 
ligieux Benedidlines, de la Cong, de S. Maur. 
6 Vols. 4°. Paris. 1750. 

The Authors of this highly eJleemed Work were M. M. Touftain and 
Taffin. Th- third Volume contains a moft copious Lift of the Abbrevia- 
tions occurring in ancient Writings. 

Vaines (Dom. De). Didiionnaire Raifonne de 
Diplomatique. 2 Vols. 8°. Paris. 1774. 

The Defign of the learned Author, fays Home, was to feleft and con- 
centrate within the Compafs of two Volumes, the Refearches of all the 
moft celebrated Writers on the Diplomatick Art. This objeft is moft 
happily accomplifhed ; and to thofe who have not the Means of procur- 
ing the large and coftly Volumes of Mabillon, Montfaucon, MafFei, and 
other Writers on the Subjeft, the Work of M. De Vaines is invaluable. 
The Plates, thirty-five in Number, faithfully exhibit the various Modes of 
Writing in different Ages and Nations. 
D 



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3. Monograms and Autographs. 

Brulliot (Fran9ois). Didionnaire des Mono- 
grammes, Marques Figurees, Lettres Initials, 
Noms Abreges, etc., avec lefquels les Peintres, 
Deffinateurs, Graveurs, et Sculpteurs ont defigne 
leurs Noms. 2^ Ed. 3 Pts. 4°. Munich. 1832-4. 

" Ouvrage tres important." — Brunet. 

Fontaine (P. J.). Des Colled:ions des Auto- 
graphes et de I'Utilite qu'on peut en retirer. 8". 
Paris. 1834. 

Fontaine (P. J.). Manuel de I'Auteur des 
Autographes. 8°. Paris. 1836. 

Ifographie des Hommes celebres, ou Collection de 
Fac-Simile de Lettres autographes et de Signa- 
tures ; publiee par MM. Berard, Chateaugiron, 
Duchefne, et Fremifot. 4 Vols. Large 4°. 
Paris. 1843. 

Peignot (Gabriel). Recherches hiftoriques et 
bibliographiques fur les Autographes et fur 
I'Autographie. 8°. Dijon. 1836. 

4. Materials for Writing or 
Printing. 

Koops (Matthias). Hiftorical Account of the 
Subflances which have been ufed to defcribe 
Events and to convey Ideas, from the earlieft 
Date to the Invention of Paper. 8°. London. 
1801. 



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Le Normand (L. S.). Manuel du Fabricant de 
Papiers, etc. (with Plates). 2 Vols. 12°. Paris. 
i«34. 

Peignot (Gabriel). ElTai fur I'Hiftoire du Par- 
chemin et du Velin. 8°. Paris, i 8 1 2. 

Savage (William). Treatife on the Preparation 
of Printing Ink of various Colours. 8°. London. 

1832. 

Publifhed by Longman at ,£2 2s. 

Taylor (Ifaac). Hiftory of the Tranfmiffion of 
Ancient Books to Modern Times ; or, a concife 
Account of the Means by which the Genuine- 
nefs and Authenticity of ancient hiftorical Works 
are afcertained. 8°. London. 1827. 

The firft Part of this excellent Work is devoted to the Hiftory of 
Manufcripts, an Account of the Materials of x'\ncient Books, Inftruments 
of Writing, Inks, Illuminations, Copyifts, Writers of the Middle Ages, &c. 

Wehrs (G. F.). Von Papier, &c. (with Supple- 
ment). 3 Vols. 8°. Halle & Hannover. 1789-90. 

5. Engraving on Copper, Wood, 
Stone, & c . 

Bartsch (Adam de). Le Peintre Graveur. 21 Vols. 
8°. Vienne, Degen, et Mechetti. 1803-21. 

This Work, fays Brunet, is certainly the moft exaft of any of the Kind 
which we have ; but it is very incomplete, and the laft Volumes are of lefs 
Value than the firft. Volumes 1-5. Flemifh and Dutch Schools. 6-1 1. 
The German School. 12 and 13. The Itahan School. 14 and 15. 
Marc Antonio, &c. 16-21. The Refidye of the Italian School. 



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' Bryan (Michael). A Biographical and Critical 
Dictionary of Painters and Engravers ; with the 
Ciphers, Monograms, and Marks ufcd by each 
Engraver. A new Edition, revifed, enlarged and 
continued to the prefent Time, comprifing above 
ONE THOUSAND additional Memoirs and large 
Acceffions to the Lifts of Pi<flures and Engrav- 
ings, alfo new Plates of Ciphers and Monograms. 
By George Stanley. Royal 8°. London. 1 849. 

A Book of 963 Pages, embracing without the Icafl: Abridgment, as 
ftated in the Preface, the whole of the Articles contained in the two 
quartos publifhed by Bryan in i8i6. 

Engelmann (M. G.). Traite theorique et pra- 
tique de Lithographic. 2^ Ed. 4". Paris. 1839. 

Illuftrated with a great Number of Plates. 

Heinecken (M. le Baron). Idee Generale d'une 
Colledion complette d'Eftampes, avec une Dif- 
fertation fur I'Origine de la Gravure, et fur les 
premiers Livres des Images. 8°. Leipfic. 1771. 

The Value and Fidelity of this Work have long been known and duly 
appreciated by Bibliographers and Amateurs of the fine Arts. A Circum- 
ftance that greatly enhances its Merit is, that the Author aftually faw 
every Book of Images, &c. which he has defcribed. It is illuftrated with 
28 fine Engravings, feveral of which are Doubles. 

Fielding (T. H.). The Art of Engraving; being 
an hiftorical and diftind: Account of the various 
Styles now praClifed, with Inftru6tions as to the 
various Modes of Operation, 6cc. Royal 8°. 
London. 1840. 



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Jackson (John). A Treatife on Wood Engraving, 
hiftorical and practical. With upwards of three 
hundred Illuftrations, engraved on Wood. Royal 
8°. London. 1839. 

The third Chapter of this important Work is devoted to an Examina- 
tion of the Claims of Gutemburg and Cofter to the Honour of the Inven- 
tion of Typography. The Author fupports the Claims of the former. 

Nagler (G. K.). Neues Allgemeines Kiinftler- 
Lexicon, oder Nachrichten von dem Leben 
und den Werken der Maler, Bildhauer, etc. 22 
Vols. 8°. Miinchen. 1835-52. 

A biographical Dictionary, with critical Notices of the Works of 
Painters, Sculptors, Engravers, Defigners, Lithographers, etc., being the 
bell and moft extenfive Work of the Kind extant. 

Ottley (W. Y.). Hiflory of Engraving upon 
Copper and Wood, with an Account of Engravers 
and their Works. 2 Vols. Royal 4°. London. 
1816. 

Publifhed at £S 8s. 

This magnificent Book is printed uniformly with Dibdin's Ames, and 
with that forms a grand Series of the Hiftory of Printing and Engraving. 
Like Meerman the Author fupports the Pretenlions of Cofter as the In- 
ventor of Printing. 

Singer (S. W.). Refearches into the Hiftory of 
Playing Cards ; with Illuftrations of the Origin 
of Printing and Engraving on Wood. 4°. (Nu- 
merous Plates). London. 18 16. 

" The entire Impreffion of this Work is limited to 250 Copies ; fo 
that when its intrinfick Worth and intrinfick Beauty be confidered, the 
Curious will not fail to fecure Copies whenever they make their Appear- 
ance." — Dibdin. 



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Spooner (S.). a Biographical and Critical Dic- 
tionary of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and 
Archite(5ls ; with the Monograms, Ciphers, &c. 
Large 8°. New York. 1853. pp. 11 50. 

IV. The Origin a?id Progrefs of Printings 
Early Printed Books^ a?id Book Binding. 

THE Hiftory of the Origin of this moft im- 
portant of all human Inventions is enveloped 
in Myftery, the moft widely oppollte 
Opinions upon the Subjecfl being ftill entertained. 
Although within twenty Years from its Difcovery 
it was fpread all over Europe, commemorating all 
other Inventions, and handing down to Pofterity 
every important Event, it has unfortunately failed 
to record in decilive Terms, the Name of its own 
Inventor. To determine this, as well as the Place 
where the Difcovery was made, has given Employ- 
ment to the Studies and Refearches of the moft 
learned Men in Europe during the laft two Centu- 
ries. We can only in this Connection, point out 
fome of the moft important Publications on the 
Subjed:, together with Manuals and Dicftionaries of 
the Art, and fuch Works as are particularly defcrip- 
tive of early printed Books. 

Ames (Jofeph). Typographical Antiquities ; be- 
ing an hiftorical Account of Printing in Eng- 
land, Scotland and Ireland, from 1471 to 1600. 
4^ London, 1749. 



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A fecond Edition of this truly valuable Work, enlarged by William 
Herbert, was publifhed in 1785-90, in 3 Vols. 4°. Both thefe Editions 
are now in a great Degree fuperfeded by the elaborate and fplendid Edi- 
tion by the Rev. T. F. Dibdin, greatly enlarged, with copious Notes and 
appropriate Engravings. 4 Vols. 4°. Lond. 18 10-19. Publifhed at 60 
Guineas. 

AuDiFFREDi (J. B.). Cacalogus Hiftorico-Crlt- 
icus Romanarum Editionum Sasculi XV. Alfo, 
Specimen Hiftorico-Criticum Editionum Italic- 
arum Ssculi XV. 2 Vols. 4. Roms. 1783-94. 

Dibdin fpeaks of thefe ProducElions as of very great Importance to the 
Bibliographer. AudifFredi appears to have had Accefs to the firft Libra- 
ries in Italy ; and his Care, Accuracy and Refearch, entitle him to a 
Superiority over all his Predeceflbrs. Both of thefe Works have good 
Indexes. 

Bandini (A. M.). De Florentina Juntarum Ty- 
pographia. 2 Vols. 8°. Lucas. 1791. 

It only goes as far as 1550. Peignot commends it as a " profoundly 
learned Work." 

BeRARD (A. S. L.). ElTai bibliographique fur les 
Editions des Elzevirs. 8°. Paris. 1822. 

Bernard (Aug.). De I'Origine et des Debuts de 
rimprimerie en Europe* 2 Vols. 8°. Paris. 

1853- 

Paul Tromel in Petzholdt's Jftzeiger, fpeaks of this as the moll im- 
portant Work yet written on the Origin of the Art of Printing. 

Bibliotheca Smithiana, feu Catalogus Librorum 
D. Jofephi Smithii Angli per Cognomina Au- 
thorum difpolitus. pp. 913. 4°. Venetiis. 1755. 

This valuable Catalogue was compiled by J. B. Pafchal. It contains 



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the Prefaces and Epistles of the rareft and moll important Works pub- 
liflied before the year 1500, this Part of the Book occupying 285 Pages ; 
it contains alfo a complete alphabetical Index of Authors. 

Cotton (Henry). Typographical Gazetteer. 3^ 
Ed. 8. Oxford. 1852. 

A very ufeful Work, being a Diftionary of all the Places where Print- 
ing has been pradticed, with an Account of the firll Books printed at each, 
a Tranflation into Englifh of the Foreign Names of Towns, &c. 

Daunou (P. C. F.) Analyze des Opinions di- 
verfes fur I'Origine de I'lmprimerie. 8°. Paris. 
1802. 

This is a clear and compendious View of the various Opinions which 
have been advanced upon the Origin of Printing. The fame has alfo 
been publifhed in the fourth Volume of the Memoirs of the moral and 

political Clafs of the French IniVitute. 

DiBDiN (T. F.). Bibliotheca Spenceriana ; or a 
Defcriptive Catalogue of early printed Books, 
and of many important firft Editions in the 
Library of Earl Spencer. 4 Vols. Superroyal 
8°. London. 18 14-15. 

This fuperb Collection of Books contains upwards of 45,000 Volumes ; 
among them are fixty-four Editions from the Prefs of Wm. Caxton, the 
firft Englifh Printer, which are reputed to be worth $60,000. The 
Abundance and Beauty of the Facfimiles and other Embellifhmcnts, as well 
as the Finenefs of the Paper and Printing, render this Catalogue one of the 
moft fplendid bibliographical Works ever publifhed in any Country. It 
defcribes, i . Books printed from wooden Blocks about the Middle of the 
fifteenth Century. 2. Early printed Bibles. 3. Liturgical Works. 4. 
Works of the Fathers. 5. Greek and Latin Clafficks. 6. Mifcellaneous 
Literature. The PofTefTors of this Work, to complete it, fliould procure 
^DES Althorpian/e, 2 Vols. fuper royal 8". London, 1822, containing 
an Account of the Manfion, Books and Pidures at Althorp, the Refidence 



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of Earl Spencer j and alfo the Cassino Catalogue, fuper royal 8°. Lond. 
1823, forming a Supplement to the two previous Catalogues, and contain- 
ing a general Index. 

DupoNT (Paul). Notice Hiftorique fur I'lmpri- 
merie. Large 8°. Paris. 1 849. 

Falkenstein (Karl). Gefchichte der Buch- 
druckerkunft. 4°. Leipzig. 1840. 

A very important and beautiful Work, containing Engravings, many of 
which are coloured. 

Greswell (W. p.). Annals of Parifian Typo- 
graphy, containing an Account of the earlieft 
Typographical Eftablifhments in Paris. 8°. 
London. 181 8. 

This has long been regarded as an important Compilation. It is enriched 
with numerous interefting Notes relating to the Hiftory of Literature. 
It is defigned principally to fhow the particular Influence of the Parifian 
Gothick Prefs upon the early Englifh Prefs. 

Greswell (W. P.). View of the Early Parifian 
Greek Prefs, including the Lives of the Stephani. 
2 Vols, 8°. Oxford. 1833. 

Hain (Ludovicus). Repertorium Bibliographicum. 
4 Vols. 8°. Stutt. et Tubingae. 1826-38. 

a ufeful Repertory, in which, by means of frequent Abbreviations, 
the Author has endeavoured to bring into a fmall Compafs a defcriptive 
Account of all the Editions of the 15th Century known to himfelf. The 
Number of Articles thus given amounts to 16,299. They are regarded 
by Bibliographers as extremely accurate. 

Hansard (T. C). Typographia; an hiflorical 
Sketch of the Origin and Progrefs of Printing, 
with practical Directions for conducting every 
E 



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Department in an Office, with a Defcription of 
Stereotype and Lithography. Thick royal 8°. 
London. 1825. 

A beautiful Book of 939 Pages, with a good Index. 

• Hansard (T. C). The Hiftory of the Art of 

Printing, Copperplate Printing, Type Founding 
and Lithographick Printing. 8°. Edinburgh. 
1840. 

• Hodgson (Thomas). An EfTay on the Origin and 

Progrefs of Stereotype Printing, including a 
Defcription of the various ProcefTes. 8°. New- 
caftle. 1820. pp. 178. 

An excellent Work. Only 306 Copies printed. 

• Johnson (John). Typographia, or the Printer's 

Inflrucflor. 2 Vols. 8°. London. 1824. 

Laire (F. X.). Index Librorum ab Inventa 
Typographia ad Annum 1 500, cum notis. (With 
a Supplement.) 3 Vols. 8°. Paris. 179 1-2. 

A ufeful Work of its Kind. The Defcriptions are clear, the Notes 
brief and inftruftive, and there are four Indexes. 

- Maittaire (Michael). Annales Typographici ab 
Artis Invents Origine ad Annum 1664, cum 
Supplemento Michaelis Denifii. 7 Vols, (or 1 1 
when the Parts are bound up feparately). 4°. 
Hag. Com. et Vienna. 1719-89. 

Volume I. from the Origin of the Art to the Year 1500, was publifhed 
in 1719. Volume II. 1500-1536, was pubhfhed in 1722, in 2 Parts. 
Volume III. 1536-1557, was publifhed in 1726, in 2 Parts, with an 
Appendix. Volume IV. from the Origin of the Art to 1 664, was publifhed 



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in 1 733, in 2 Parts. Volume V. containing a general Index, was publifhed 
in 1 741, in 2 Parts. Complete Copies of thefe Annals, with both Parts 
of the Index, are rare, efpecially in this Country. The Supplement by 
Michel Denis, publifhed at Vienna in 1789, in z-Vols. 4''., contains 631 1 
Articles, defcribing Works printed in the 15 th Century, which were un- 
known to Maittaire. 

Though lefs perfeft in fome refpedls than the Annals of Panzer, it is 
neverthelefs indifpenfable in every bibliographical Colleftion. It does not 
confine itfelf like that Work to mere Nomenclature, but gives Information 
refpefting the Lives of Printers, Publilhers, Correftors of the Prefs, and 
literary Men, and fuggefts Inquiries refpedling the Hiftory of the Art of 
Printing. The Author was a Native of London, born in 1668, and 
educated at Weftminfter School and Oxford Univerfity. 

Meerman (Gerard). Origines Typographicas. 2 
Vols. 4°. Hag. Com. 1765. 

One of the mofl ihftruftive Books extant, as to the Progrefs of the Art, 
and full of learned and acute Inquiries. The Author, who was a dif- 
tinguilhed Lawyer of Leyden, fupports with great Ardour the Pretenfions 
of Harlem as the Birthplace of the Art, and of Lawrence Cofter as its 
Inventor. Although the Hypothefis of Meerman in Support of thefe 
Pretenfions has long fince been exploded as a Fable, the Work is highly 
efteemed and eagerly fought after by Bibliographers. The Plates (12 in 
Number) are frequently taken out to illuftrate other Works. 

Meersch (P. C. Van der). Recherches fur la Vie 
et les Travaux des Imprlmeurs Beiges et Neer- 
landais, etablis a I'Etranger, et fur la Part qu'ils 
ont prife a la Regeneration litteraire de 1' Europe 
duXY^Siecle. Vol.1. 8°. Gand. 1856. 

A very important Work. 

Panzer (G. W.). Annales Typographici ab Artis 
Inventas Origine ad Annum 1536. 1 1 Vols. 4°. 
Norimbergae. 1793- 1803. 



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The mofl: extenfive Work extant on the Prodiidtions of the 15th Cen- 
tury, and furpaffing in bibliographical Accuracy, as well as in Method 
and Arrangement all its Predeceffbrs. Volumes I-III contain the dated 
Produftions which appeared up to 1 500, in the alphabetical Order of 
their Places of Printing. VolUrrie IV contains the dated Produftions which 
appeared without arty Statement of the Place of Printing, or Name of Printer, 
arranged in chronological Order; alfo the Produftions without Place, Date, 
or Printer, arranged in alphabetical Order, according to the Authors' Names, 
andatriple Supplement to the former Volumes. Volume Vis a general Index 
to the previous Volumes. Volumes VI-IX embrace the dated and undated 
Produftions from 1 501 to 1536 together with Supplements. Volumes X 
and XI contain general Indexes to Vols. VI-IX, and alfo a Supplement to 
the entire Work. 

PiETERS (M. Chs.). Analyfe des Materiaux les 
plus utiles, pour des futures Annales de I'lmpri- 
merie des Elzevirs. Large 8°. Gand. 1843. 

PiETERS (M. Chs.). Annales de I'lmprimerie 
Elfevirienne. 8°. Gand et Paris. 1851. 

Renouard (A. A.). Annales de I'lmprimerie des 
Aide. 2^ Ed. 3 Vols. 8°. Paris. 1825. 

Renouard (A. A.). Annales de I'lmprimerie des 
Eflienne. 2 Pts. in one Volume S^. Paris. 

1837-8. 

Thefe Works upon Aldus Manutius, the Inventor of Ita/ics,and his Suc- 
cefibrs, and upon Henry Stephens and his Succeffbrs, the celebrated French 
Printers of the i6th Century, are very important. A 3'' Edition of the 
firft named Work, containing a Notice of the Juntas, and a Lift of their 
Produftions up to 1550, was publilhed in one thick Volume, 8°. Paris. 
1834. 

Sap^tander (M. de la Serna). An Hillorical 
ElTay on the Origin of Printing. Tranflated 



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from the French. 8°. Newcaftle. Hodgfon. 
1819. pp.93. 

Only 214 Copies printed. 

Savage (William). Dicflionary of the Art of 
Printing. (Illullrated with Diagrams). Thick 
8°. London. 1841. 

A new Edition of this capital Work has long been in Preparation by a 
competent Gendeman of New York. 

SoTHEBY (S. L.). Principia Typographica. The 
Block Books, or xylographick Delineations of 
Scripture Hiftory, ilTued in Holland, Flanders and 
Germany, during the fifteenth Century, exem- 
plified and confidered in Connexion with the 
Origin of Printing, &c. &c. 3 Vols. imp. 4°. 
London. 1857. 

Only 250 Copies printed, of which 220 Copies are to be fold at 
Auftion on Wednefday the 5th of May, 1858, in London. The Vol- 
umes are illuftrated with above 120 Plates. None will be fold for lefs 
than 9 Guineas. 

Stower (Charles). The Printer's Grammar; or 
Introdud:ion to the Art of Printing. (With 
Plates.) 8^ London. 1808. 

Thomas (Ifaiah). The Hiflory of Printing in 
America ; with a Biography of Printers, and an 
Account of Newfpapers. To which is prefixed 
a concife View of the Difcovery and Progrefs of 
the Art in other Parts of the World. 2 Vols. 
8^. Worcefter. 18 10. 

Rare and very important. 



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TiMPERLEY (C. H.). Encyclopedia of Literary 
and Typographical Anecdote ; compiled from 
Nichols's Literary Anecdotes, and numerous 
Authorities. Second Edition, comprifing recent 
Biographies, chiefly of Bookfellers, and a Prac- 
tical Manual of Printing. Thick royal 8°. Lond. 
1842. 

WiLLETT (Ralph). A Memoir on the Origin of 
Printing, in a Letter addrelTed to John Topham, 
Efq. 8°. Newcaftle. T. Hodgfon. 1820. pp. 72. 

Only 150 Copies printed. 

WoLFius (J. C). Monumenta Typographica. 2 
thick Vols. 8°. Hamburgi. 1740. 

This Collection confifts of Treatifes by various Authors, and alfo of 
Extrafts illullrative of the Origin and early Hiftory of the Art, fome of 
which are in Verfe. 

Boo K-B I N D I N G. 

A few Works illuftrative of the Hiftory and Art 
of Book-Binding, may very properly be added to 
this Part of our List. 

Anett (J. A.). An Inquiry into the Nature and 
Form of the Books of the Ancients, with a Hif- 
tory of the Art of Book-Binding, from the Times 
of the Greeks and Romans to the prefent Day ; 
interfperfed with bibliographical References to 
Men and Books of all Ages and Countries. 
Small 8°. London. 1837. 



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Greve (E. W.). Hand und Lehrbuch der Buch- 
binde, &c. 2^1 Ed. 2 Vols. 8°. Berlin. 1832. 

Hannett (John). Bibliopegia or the Art of 
Book-Binding. 4^^^ Ed. 12°. London. 1848. 

Le Normand (L, S.). Manuel du Relieur. 2^^ Ed. 
18°. Paris. 1 83 1, 

One of the Manueh Roret. 

Peignot (Gabriel). ElTai hiftorique et archaso- 
logique fur la Relieure des Livres, etc. 8°. 
Dijon. 1834. 

TucKETT (C. J.). Specimens of ancient and 
modern Binding. Royal 4°. London. 1846. 

Walker (Edward). The Art of Book-Binding, 
its Rife and Progrefs. (Including a defcriptive 
Account of the New York Book Bindery of E. 
Walker & Sons, with a Lift of Prices annexed.) 
Thin 8°. New York. 1850. 

F, Rare^ Anonymous^ Pfeudonymous and 
Prohibited Books. 

I . Rare. 

ONE of the Objed:s of Bibliography is to 
indicate thofe Books which, to a greater or 
lefs Degree, come under this Category. 
With regard to thefe Compilations we may remark, 
that though in moft of them the Epithet rare is 
fometimes applied too vaguely and lavilhly, they 



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are neverthelefs as a Clals extremely ufeful. It is 
indeed exceedingly difficult to fpeak in all Cafes with 
Precifion in regard to rare Books, and hence per- 
haps impoffible to compile a Work of this Kind 
which fhall not fometimes miflead thofe who con- 
fult it. A Diftind:ion Ihould always be made 
between the Terms rare and precious, which, 
while at firft they appear to mean the fame Thing, 
are yet effentially different. A Book may be rare be- 
caufe it is with Difficulty to be procured, and hence 
highly valued by Amateurs who deiire the exclu- 
live PolTeffion of it, regardlefs of Coft. On the 
other Hand, Books may be precious, and to be 
obtained only at a high Price, without being rare. 
Such are the fplendid Collections of architecflural 
Engravings publifhed by Piraneii and others ; the 
Collections called Galleries and Cabinets; the 
great Collections of Works on Antiquities by Gr^e- 
vius, Gronovius, Montfaucon, Muratori and others. 
The following maybe noticed as among the principal 
bibliographical Works under this Head, in addition 
to Audiffredi, Dibdin, Hain, Laire, Maittaire and 
Panzer, defcribed under the preceding Head : 

Bauer (J. J.). Bibliotheca Librorum rariorum 
univerfalis. (With three fupplementary Volumes.) 
7 Vols. 8°. Norimbergas. 1770-91. 

Arranged alphabetically according to the Authors' Names. It con- 
tains fome good Things, fays Peignot, but the Author has been too lavifh 

of the Words, rarus, rarijjlmus, paucijjimus, cognitus, l£c. 

Clement (David). Bibliotheque Curieufe ; ou 



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Catalogue Raifonne des Livres rares et diffi- 
ciles a trouver. 9 Vols. 4°. Gottingen et Leipzig. 
1750-60. 

This Work is compiled upon a very extenfive Plan, for, though con- 
iifting of nine quarto Volumes, it comes down no farther than to the 
Letter H in the alphabetical Arrangement of Names; terminating here 
in confequence of the Author's Death. It is beautifully printed and 
exhibits great Labour and Learning. The following are the different 
Clafles mentioned in which Books may be faid to be rare. i. A Book 
which it is difficult to find in the Country where it is fought, ought to be 
called fimply rare. z. A Book which it is difficult to find in any Coun- 
try may be called very rare. 3. A Book of which there are only 50 or 
60 Copies exifting, or which appears as feldom as if there never had been 
more at any Time than that Number of Copies, ranks as extremely rare. 
4. When the whole Number of Copies of a Work does not exceed 10, 
this conftitutes excejjive Rarity, or Rarity in the higheft Degree. This 
Claffification of the Degrees of Rarenefs is copied from Clement by all 
fubfequent Writers in this Department. 

DiBDiN (T. F.). A Bibliographical Antiquarian 
and Pidturefque Tour in France and Germany. 
2^ Edition. 3 Vols, fmall 8°. London. 1829. 

Containing a Fund of ufeful Information upon Topography, Manufcripts, 
rare and valuable Books, publick and private Libraries, Bookfellers, Book- 
colleftors. Autographs, &c. &c. Numerous Illuftradons. The firft Edidon, 
of which the fecond is an Abridgment, was publifhed in 1821, in 3 Vols, 
royal %°. The Expenfes of the Prindng and Engraving of this firft Edidon, 
amounted to upwards of jE6ooo. 

DiBDiN (T. F.). A Bibliographical and Pidurefque 
Tour in the Northern Counties of England and in 
Scotland. 2 Vols. Royal 8°. London. 1838. 

Profufely embellifhed, with Accounts of Libraries, Manufcripts, rare 
Books, &c. &c. and a general Index. 
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FouRNiER (F. I.). Nouveau Didionnaire Portatif 
de Bibliographic; contenant plus de vingt trois 
mille Articles de Livres rares, curieux, eftimes et 
recherches. &c. 2'^ Ed. 8°. Paris. 1809. 

Preceded by an Effity on Libraries and Bibliography, and followed by 
Catalogues of the Editions of Bafkerville, Didot, the Aldi, Elzevirs, &c. &c. 

Gerdes (Daniel). Florigium hirtorico-criticum 
Librorum rariorum, etc. 8°. Groningse. 1773. 

This is the third Edition of a Work, defigned in Part as a Supplement 
to the Catalogue of Vogt. 

GuiCHARD (J. M.). Notice fur le Speculum Hu- 
man£e Salvationis. 8°. Paris. 1840. 

Hartshorne (C. H.). Book Rarities of the Uni- 
veriity of Cambridge ; illuftrated by original 
Letters and Notes biographical, literary and 
antiquarian. (With Plates.) 8°. London. 1820. 

HoYois (P. J.). Mufee Bibliographique ; Collec- 
tion d'Ouvrages imprimes et Manufcrits, dont le 
moindre Prix efl de 1000 Francs. 8°. Mons. 

1837- 

Lalande (M. L. C). Curiofites Bibliographiques. 
18°. Paris. 1845. 

This little Work, although not ftridly coming under this Head, ncvcr- 
thelelefs contains many intcrcfting particulars in regard to curious and rare 
Books, including Titles and Frontifpieces, Dedications, Prefaces, Errours, 
Binding, Prices paid to Authors, Autographs, Liberty of the Prcfs, &c. 

OsMONT (J. B. L.). Did:ionnaireTypographique, 
Hiflorique, et Critique des Livres rares, fingu- 



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liers, eftimes, et recherches en tous Genres. 2 
Vols. 8° Paris. 1768. 

A fcarce Workj which, though in fome refpefts fuperfeded by later 
bibliographical Didlionaries, may yet be advantageoufly confulted for Italian 
Literature. 

Peignot (Gabriel). ElTai de Curiofites Biblio- 
graphiques. 8°. Paris. 1804. 

Containing a claffiiied Notice of the fineft Works, the Price of which, 
at the publick Sales, has exceeded i ooo Francs. 

Peignot (Gabriel). Vari^tes, Notices et Raretes 
Bibliographiques. 8°. Paris. 1822. pp. 147. 

Dibdin in his Preface to the Bibliographical Tour in France, juft de- 
fcribed, complains that this litde Work is but the Reflection or Tranflation 
of the 9th and 30th Letters of the ifl Edition of the fame. 

Peignot (Gabriel). Repertoire de Bibliographies 
fpeciales, curieufes et inftrud;ives. 8°. Paris. 1 8 1 o. 

Containing, i. Special Bibliographies in all Languages. 2. Books of 
which only 100 Copies were printed. 3. Books of which Copies have 
been printed on coloured Paper. 4. Books, the Text of which is 
engraved. 5. All Books which have been publifhed under the Name 
Ana, &c. 

Santander (M. de la Serna). Didlionnaire Bib- 
liographique choifi du quinzieme Siecle ; ou 
defcription des Editions les plus rares, &c. 3 
Vols. 8°. Bruxelles et Paris. 1805-7. 

The firft Volume contains an elaborate Hiftory of Printing (fee 
Page 28), which Home has abridged in his Introduftion to the Study 
of Bibliography. Santander defcribes only the principal Edidons of 
the 15 th Century, obferving that though there are fuppofed to have 
been not lefs than 15,000 publifhed within that Period, not more than 
1500 defervc the Attention of the Curious. 



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ScHELHORN (J. G.). Amoenitas Literarias, quibus 
varias Obfervationes, Scripta item quaedam Anec- 
dota et variofa Opufcula exhibentur. 2'^ Ed. 14 
Vols. 8°. Frankfort et Leipzic. 1725-31. 

Vallicre (M. le Due de la). Catalogues des Livres 
de la Bibliotheque de Valliere. 9 Vols. 8°. Paris. 

1783-8. 

The firft Part of this Catalogue, in three Yolnmes, was compiled by 
Guillaume de Bure, and is extremely curious. It comprifcs Manufripts 
(defcribed by M. Van Praet), early Editions, Books printed on Vellum 
and large Paper, Books rare and precious. Books of Engravings, &c. con- 
taining in all 5668 Articles, and two Indexes, one of Authors and one of 
Titles or Subjefts. 

The fecond Part, confifting of the lafl fix Volumes, was compiled by 
Jean Sue Nyon. It contains 27,000 Articles, arranged under general 
Divifions, but without an Index. This Part of the Valliere Library, 
although confidered of lefs Value than the preceding Portion, contains a 
fine Collection of French and Italian Poets, and a Colleftlon of Romances, 
the moft complete perhaps that ever was formed, together with numerous 
Works on the Arts, Sciences, Hiftory, &c. This Part of the Work there- 
fore belongs to general Bibliography. It is of little practical Value for the 
Want of defcriptive Notes and an Index. 

Van Praet (Jofeph). Catalogue des Livres im- 
primes fur Velin, de la Bibliotheque du Roi. 
(With Supplement.) 6 Vols. Large 8°. Paris. 
1822-8. 

" L'Importance et la grande Valcur des Livres decrits, I'Exaditudc 
rigoureufe des Defcriptions, et les Anecdotes curieufes qui les accom- 
pagnent, donnent de I'lnteret a cet excellent Catalogue." — Brunei. 

The Compiler, one of the moft profound Bibliographers of Europe, 
has been for many Years at the Head of the Bibliotheque Royale at Paris, 
a Library fingularly rich in Books printed on Vellum. 



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Van Praet (Jofeph). Catalogue des Livres im- 
primes fur Velin qui fe trouvent dans des Biblio- 
theques tant publiques que particulieres. 4 Vols. 
Large 8°. Paris. 1824-8. 

VoGT (John). Catalogus hiftorico-criticus Libro- 
rum rariorum. 5th Ed. Thick 8^. Norimbergas. 

1793' 

An excellent Work, the Plan and Execution of which are character- 
ized by Dibdin as being at once clear and concife. Vogt, however, like 
many other Authors of this Clafs of Books, is fomewhat prodigal of the 
Word rare. 

2. Anonymous and Pseudonymous 
Books. 

Anonymous Books are thofe which are publifhed 
without any Author's Name. Cryptonymous Books 
are thofe the Names of the Authors of which are 
concealed under an Anagram or fimilar Contrivance. 
Pfeudonymous Books are thofe which bear falfe 
Names of Authors. The great Number of Works 
embraced under this Head renders it a very import- 
ant Branch of bibliographical Inquiry. Of the 
various Writers who have defcribed this Clafs of 
Books, the following are the principal. They are 
particularly ufeful in regard to the literary Pro- 
du(ftions of Periods and Countries which have been 
greatly reftridied in the Liberty of the Prefs. 

Barbier (A. A.). Dicftionnaire des Ouvrages 
Anonymes et Pfeudonymes. 2^ Ed. 4 Vols. 8°. 
Paris. 1822-7. 

By far the mofl perfeft and valuable of all the numerous Works which 



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have been publifhed in this Department of Bibliography, being the Refiilts 
of thirty Years of diligent Labour and Rcfearch. The Author was 
private Librarian of the Emperor Napoleon, and afterwards, on the 
Return of the Bourbons, Superintendent of the private Royal Libraries. 
He died in 1825. His Didlionary is confined to Works in the Latin 
and French Languages, but of thefc it notices between twenty-three and 
twenty-four thoufand. 

Lancetti (v.). Pfeudonimia Ovvero Tavole alfa- 
betiche de' Nomi finti o fuppofti degli Scrittori 
con la Contrappofizione de' Veri 8". Milano. 

1836. 

Manne (M. de). Nouveau Recueil d'Ouvrages 
Anonymes et Pfeudonymes. 8°. Paris. 1834. 

Containing 21 31 Articles, not limited like Barbicr's Dicflionary to 
Works in the French and Latin Languages, and followed by an alpha- 
betical Index of Authors. 

Placcius (Vincent). Theatrum Anonymorum et 
Pfeudonymorum Operum. (Edited by J. A. 
Fabricius and M. Dreyer, with a Preface by the 
former.) 2'^ Ed. Pol. Hamburgl. 1708. 

To this fhould be added a Supplement, or Continuation by J. C. Mylius, 
publifhed in 1740. Folio. Hamburg. The original Work and the Sup- 
plement together, comprehend between nine and ten thoufand Articles. 

QueRARD (J. M.). Les Ecrivains Pfeudonymes et 
autres Myftificateurs de la Litterature Fran9aife 
pendant les quatre derniers Siecles reftitues a leurs 
veritables Noms. 8°. Paris. 1854-5. 

One of the latefl Works upon the Subjcft. 

Schmidt (A. G.). Gallerie deutfcher pfeudonymer 
Schriftfteller, &c. 8^. GrimmiE. 1840. 



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3- Prohbited. 

The following Works upon condemned and 
prohibited Books, may very appropriately be added 
to the above Defcriptions of rare and anonymous 
Books. They conftitute a melancholy Portion of 
Bibliography, for though the Fa6ts which they 
coiled: fometimes amufe by their Folly, they oftener 
excite Indignation and Pity at the Oppreffions of 
Power, and the SujQFerings of the Learned. 

An exact Reprint of the Roman Index Expur- 
gatorious, the only Vatican Index of this Kind 
ever publifhed ; edited with a Preface, by Richard 
Gibbings. Thick 12°. Dublin. 1837. 

Hannot (J. B.). Index des principaux Livres 
condamnes et defendus par I'Eglife. 12°. Na- 
mur. 1 714. 

Index Librorum Prohibitorum juxta Examplar 
Romanum JulTu Sand:iffimi Domini noftri editum 
Anno 1835; AccefTerunt fuis Locis Nomina eorum 
qui ufque ad banc Diem damnati fuere. Poft 8°. 
MechlinicB. 1843. 

Mendham (Joseph). Account of the Indexes, both 
prohibitory and expurgatory of the Church of 
Rome. 8°. London. 1826. 

Mendham (Jofeph). Index Librorum Prohibito- 
rum a Sixto V. ; Ed. J. Menham. 4°. London. 

1835- 



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Peignot (Gabriel). Dicflionnaire Critique et Bib- 
liographique des Principaux Livres condamnes 
au Feu, fupprimes ou cenfures. 2 Vols. 8°. Paris. 
i8o6. 

The moft complete Work in this Department of Bibliography, ahhough 
it can hardly be faid to contain an Enumeration of all the principal fup- 
prefTed, condemned or cenfured Books, as there are few Englifh Works 
noticed. The firft Volume contains a Lift of Indices expurgatorii, and 
alfo of more than thirty Writers who have treated on this Subjcft. 



VI, Clajftjication of Books and Management 
of Libraries^ or Library Economy, 

NOTWITHSTANDING the almoft infinite 
Number of Libraries and Catalogues that 
exift, karcely any two can be found which 
entirely agree in their Arrangements, or which are 
catalogued upon the fame Principles. It is there- 
fore important to point out fome of the beft Guides 
upon thefe Subjects, for the Benefit of the various 
publick Libraries which are being formed and de- 
veloped in all Parts of the Land, in order that they 
may be condudied in accordance with the moft 
approved Principles of Library Economy. Before 
proceeding with our Lift, we may remark, that 
Catalogues refolve themfelves finally into two 
ClalTes, viz: Classified and Alphabetical. 
The Utility of the former is very great, confifting 
obvioufly in this, that the Books upon any Subje(5t 
are found at once by referring to the proper Head, 



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To refer however every Book to its proper Place in 
the general Syftem of human Knowledge, would 
evidently require clearer and more exuS: Ideas of 
the Scope and Objed:s of all the Departments and 
Branches of which that Syftem confiits, and a more 
thorough Acquaintance with the Science of Biblio- 
graphy in all its Details than moft Perfons poiTefs. 
The Difficulties of fuch a Tafk, and indeed of the 
whole Subje(ft of cataloguing, are very happily 
illuftrated in the Article on Libraries and Catalogues 
appended to this Work. 

A DESCRIPTIVE Catalogue, with the Titles 
placed in alphabetical Order under the Names of 
Authors, and accompanied by an alphabetical and 
claffified Index of Subjed:s, is in our Judgment by 
far the moft practical and ufeful. Such a Catalogue 
might well be called " the Eye of the Library." It 
fhould in moft Cafes h^Lve/Jiort Titles, and always 
give in full the Contents of all the collected 
Works of Authors, and of all Colledlions of fingle 
Works of various Authors, having a Common Title. 
We notice the moft important Books under this 
Head, fome of which might properly be clafted with 
elementary Bibliographies already defcribed. 

Albert (J. F. M.). Recherches fur les Principes 
fondamentaux de la Claffification bibliographique. 
8°. Paris. 1847. 

a very important Work of its Kind. 

Ampcre (A. M.). Ellai fur la Philofophie des 
Sciences, ou Expofition analytique d'une Claffi- 
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fication naturelle de toutes les ConnaifTances 
humaines. 2 Pts. 8°. Paris. 1843. 

Camus (A. G.). Obfervations fur la Diftribution 
et le Claffement des Livres d'une Bibliotheque. 
[Memoires de I'lnft. National ; Litt. et Beaux 
Arts, Tome I]. 4°. Paris. 1798. pp. 643-76. 

CoNSTANTiN (L. A.). Bibliothcconomie, ou 
nouveau Manuel Complet pour TArrangement, 
la Converfation et TAdminiftration des Biblio- 
theques. 2^ Ed. 18°. Paris. 1841. 

An excellent little Manual upon Library Economy, which we hope to 
prefent to the Publick at fome future Time, in an Englifli Drcfs, with 
Additions, &c. It is very full upon Catalogues and the Statifticks of 
Libraries. The Author, whofe real Name was Hefle, has recently died 
at Paris. 

Ebert (F. a.). Bildung des Bibliothekars. 2^ Ed. 
8°. Leipzig. 1820. 

Few Perfons, it is believed, have ever engaged in the Work of arranging 
and Cataloguing, even a fmall Library of learned Books, without being 
painfully imprefled with the Importance of all the varied Qualifications 
which Ebert here enumerates, as cflcntial for a Germn/i Librarian. 

Expose fuccindt d'un nouveau Syfteme d'Organila- 
tion des Bibliotheques publiques, par un Biblio- 
thecaire. 8°. Montpellier. 1845. 

FoiSY (F. M.). EiTai fur la Confervation des 
Bibliotheques publiques. 8°. Paris. 1833. 

FoRTiA d'Urban (Le Marquis). Nouveau Syf- 
teme alphabetique de Bibliographie alphabetique. 
Seconde Edition, precedee de nouvelles Conlider- 



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ations fur rOrthographe Fran9aife. 12°. Paris. 
1822. 

The firft Part includes a general Syftem of Bibliography. The fecond 
Part includes an encyclopedical Table of human Knowledge. A new 
Edition has been pubHfhed containing Part third, and a general Index. 
This laft Part relates to Encyclopedias, fhowing what they are, in what 
Languages they have been written, &c. 

HoRNE (T. H.). Outlines for the Claffiiication 
of a Library, fubmitted to the Truftees of the 
Britifh Mufeum. 4°. London. 1825. 

Now very fcarce. 

Jewett (C. C). On the ConftrucStion of Cata- 
logues of Libraries, and their Publication by- 
Means of feparate, ftereotyped Titles ; with Rules 
and Examples. 2^^ Ed. 8°. Wafhington. 1853. 

Containing an Explanation of the Author's Plan for preparing and 
ftereotyping Catalogues, and ferving as a Manual for Librarians in carrying 
the fame into Praftice. The thirty-nine Rules embodied in the Work, 
founded upon thofe adopted for the Compilation of the Catalogue of the 
Britifh Mufeum, have been drawn up with great Care. Modifications 
and Additions have been made, adapted to the peculiar Charafter of the 
Syftem propofed. Thefe Modifications can readily be difcovered and fet 
afide by thofe who wifh to ufe the Rules in the Preparation of an ordinary 
Catalogue. The Work is an indifpenfable Guide to Librarians and others, 
enabling them to compile Catalogues upon the beft and moft approved 
Principles, without the Expenfe of ufelefs Labour. The Author, it is 
underftood, is preparing for the Prefs a third and enlarged Edition of this 
invaluable Manual. 

LuDEWiG (Herman). Zur Bibliotheconomie. 8°. 
Leipzig. 1 840. 

MoLBECH (Chriftian). Ueber BibliothekwifTen" 



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fchaft, oder Einrichtung und Verwaltung offent- 
licher Bibliotheken. (2^ Ed. from the Danifli 
Originals by H. Ratj en). 8°. Leipzig. 1833. 

A very learned and comprehenfive Book upon the whole Subjcft of 
Library Economy. 

Namur (M. p.). Manuel du Bibliothecaire. 8°. 
Bruxelles. 1834. 

Paris (M. P.). De la Neceffite de commencer, 
achever et publier le Catalogue des Livres im- 
primes, etc. Seconde Edition, dans laquelle on 
a complete le Plan de Claffification bibliogra- 
phique, et repondu a quelques Objections. 8°. 
Paris. 1847. pp. 63. 

Peignot (Gabriel). Manuel du Bibliophile, ou 
Traite du Choix des Livres. 2 Vols. 8°, Dijon. 

1823. 

a very ufcful Guide for the Book Purchafcr. 

Petzholdt und Reichard. Ankiindigung von 
Beitriigen zur Bibliothekfbaukunft. 2 Vols. 8°. 
Drefden. 1844. 

Petzholdt (Julius). Katechifmus der Bibliothe- 
kenlehre. Anleitung zur Einrichtung und Ver- 
waltung von Bibliotheken. Mit 16 in den Text 
gedruckten Abbildungen and 15 Schrifttafeln. 
8°. Leipzig. 1856. 

This litde Work forms the 27th Number of a Scries iffued by J. J. 
Weber, entided Ilfufirirte Katechijmen. 



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Report from the Sele6b Committee on Publick 
Libraries ; together with Proceedings of the 
Committee, Minutes of Evidence, and Appendix. 
Folio. London. 1849. 

This Report of the Houfe of Commons, making with the Index, a 
Volume of 417 pages, contains the fulleft and moft accurate ftatiftical 
Details refpedling publick Libraries to be found in Print. It embodies 
the Teftimony and Opinions of fome of the moft eminent Bibliographers 
in Europe, upon important Points in the Hiftory and Management of 
Libraries, as for Example, E. Edwards, formerly of the Bridlh Mufeum, 
M. Guizot of France, M. Van der Weyer of Belgium, M. Libri of Italy, 
&c. &c. 

Report of the Commiffioners appointed to inquire 
into the Conftitution and Government of the 
Britifh Mufeum ; w^ith Minutes of Evidence. 
FoHo. pp. 823. London. 1850. Alfo Index to 
Report, &c. FoHo. pp. 172. London. 1850. 

The principal Subjeft of Inquiry related to the Preparadon and Print- 
ing of a Catalogue. On this Point therefore it contains full Information. 

Richter (Benedid:). Kurze Anieitung eine 
BibUothek zu ordnen und in der Ordnung zu 
erhalten. (With 6 lUuflrations.) 8°. Augfburg. 
1836. 

Schmidt (J. A. F.). Handbuch der Bibliothek- 
v^ilTenfchaft. 8°. Weimar, 1840. 

Valuable particularly for its Lifts of Books of Reference on Bibliography, 
Literary Hiftory, &c. 

Schrettinger (M.) Verfuch eines voMandigen 
Lehrbuchs der BibHothekw^ifTenfchaft. 2 Vols. 
2^1 Ed, 8°, Miinchen, 1829, 



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ScHRETTiNGER (M.). Handbuch dcr Bibliothek- 
wifTenfchaft, befonders zum Gebraucheder Richt- 
Bibliothekare. 8°. Wien. 1834. 

Shurtleff (N. B.). a Decimal Syftem for the 
Arrangement and Adminiftration of Libraries. 
40. Bofton. 1856. 

Defcriptive of a Syftem which the Writer, as ftated in the Preface, has 
introduced into the Publick Library of the City of Bofton, and which has 
been in praftical Operation there fince the Summer of 1852. 

VII. Library Edifices^ and Hijlory and 
Statijlicks of Libraries. 

BALBI (Adrien). ElTai Statiftique fur les 
Bibliotheques de Vienne, comparees aux plus 
grands Etabliffemens de ce genre, &c. 8°, 
Vienna. 1835. 

Next to the elaborate Article by Ebert, in the Qyclopiidie of Erfch and 
Gruber, the firit ftatiftical View of exilling Libraries to be at all relied 
upon for general x-lccuracy, Mr. Edwards places this valuable Trcatifc by 
Balbi. The Tableaux Statiftiques fur les Bibliotheques Jnciennes et 
Modernes, by the fame Author, were publilhed in the Tranfaftions of the 
French Statiftical Society in 1836. 

Bailly (J. L. A.). Notices hiftoriques fur les 
Bibliotheques Anciennes et Modernes, fuivies 
d'un Tableau Comparatif des Produits de la 
Preffe de 1812 a 1825, et d'une Lifte des Lois, 
&c. concernant les Bibliotheques. 8°. Paris.1828. 



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Blume (Fiedrich). Iter Italicum. 4 Vols. 8°. 
Berlin und Halle. 1824-36. 

Containing an Account of the Archives, Infcriptions and Libraries in 
the Sardinian and Auftrian Provinces. 

BucHON (J. A.) Rapports fur la Situation des 
Bibliotheques publiques en France. 8°. Paris. 

1830. 

Clarke (Wm.) Repertorium Bibliographicum ; 
or fome Account of the moft celebrated Britifh 
Libraries. Large 8°. London. 1819. 

Defigned, fays the Advertifement, to affift the CoIIeftor in his Purfuit of 
valuable Editions of rare Books, and containing Seledlions from the various. 
Libraries, to give the prominent Features of each. 

Delessert (M. B.). Memoire fur la Bibliotheque 
Royale. 4°. Paris. 1835. 

Delessert (M. B.). Projet d'une Bibliotheque 
circulaire fur rEmplacement, etc. 4°. Paris. 

Farnum (Luther). A Glance at Private Libra- 
ries. 8°. Bofton. 1^55. pp. 79. 

The Libraries noticed in this Account are chiefly at Bofton and its 
Neighbourhood, embracing thofe of Everett, Prefcott, Ticknor, Parker, 
Sears (now Prefident of Brown Univerfity, Providence), Livermore, the 
late Daniel Webfter, &c. Mr. Farnum eftimates the Number of Books 
in private Libraries of one thoufand Volumes and upwards, within ten 
Miles of the Bofton State Houfe, to equal or exceed three hundred thou- 
fand. 

Glay (Dr. Le). Memoire fur les Bibliotheques 
publiques et les principales Bibliotheques parti- 
culieres du Departement du Nord. 8°. Lille. 1 84 1 . 



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Greppo (J. G. H.). Notice hiftorique fur les 
Bibliotheques des Hebreux. 8". Paris. 1835. 

Hunter (Jofeph). Englifli Monaftick Libraries. 
40. London. 1831. 

Jewett (C. C.). Notices of the Publick Libraries 
in the United States of America. 8°. Wafhing- 
ton. 1 85 1. 

Prepared by Prof. Jewett while Librarian of the Smithfonian Inftitution, 
and publiflied under its Aufpices, being the firfl Work of the Kind of any 
Extent that has ever appeared in this Country. It is remarkable that the 
moft complete Account of our Libraries that had been publifhed pre- 
vious to this Work, is to be found in the Serapeum for 1 846, a foreign 
Periodical. The Number of Libraries defcribed by Prof. Jewett is 694, 
containing an aggregate of nearly two and one quarter millions of Books. 
This Number has now increafed to more than three millions. 

Laborde (Le C"^^^ de). De I'Organization des 
BibUotheques de Paris. (With Plates.) 2 Vols. 
Royal 8°. Paris. 1845-46. 

Publifhed in the Form of Lettres. Alfo by the fame, Etutit- fur la 
Conftrudion des BibUotheques , &c. 1 846. 

Livermore (George). Remarks on Publick Li- 
braries. From The North Americaji Review for 
July, 1850. For private Diftribution only. 8°. 
Cambridge. 1850. 

Full of pradical and important Suggeftions and defcrving a wide Circu- 
lation. The Author is one of our moft accompliflied Bibliographers. 
For an Account of his private Library, which is particularly rich in 
Works illuftrative of early Typography, fee Farnum's Glance at Private 
Libraries, juft noticed. 

Namur (M. p.). Hiftoire des Bibliotheques 



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Publiques de la Belgique. 3 Vols. 8^. Bruxelles. 

1840. 

Norton's Literary Almanac for 1852; Norton's 
Literary Regifter and Book Buyer's Almanac 
for 1853; Norton's Literary and Educational 
Regifter for 1854. 12°. New York. 

Thefe three little Volumes, which are bound together and fold as Norton's 
Literary Regifter, contain much ufeful Information in regard to American 
Libraries, Books, and Publifhers. The third Volume (pages 49-94.) con- 
tains a full and authentic Account of the Proceedings of the Librarian's 
Convention, which was held in New York City, Sept. 15, 16, and 17, 
1853- 

Papworth (J. W. & W.). Mufeums, Libraries, 
and Pid:ure Galleries, with Illuftrations. Royal 
8^ London. 1853. 

Containing Suggeftions on the Eftablifhment of fuch Inftitutions ; on the 
Formation and Arrangement of Mufeums for provincial Cities and large 
Towns ; on Plans for building and arranging Libraries for publick and 
private Ufe ; Notes on Cataloguing ; and Explanations and Examples of 
the beft Modes for conftrufting and lighting Pifture Galleries, etc. etc.; 
with ten Plates, or Illuftrations. The Authors are diftinguifhed Britifh 
Architefts. 

Peignot (Gabriel). Manuel Bibliographique, ou 
EiTai fur les Bibliotheques Anciennes et Modernes, 
&c. 8°. Paris. 1800. 

Peignot (Gabriel). Souvenirs relatifs a quelques 
Bibliotheques particulieres du Temps pafle. 8°. 
Dijon. 1836. 

Petit-Radel (L. C. F). Recherches fur les 
Bibliotheques anciennes et modernes jufqu' a la 
H 



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Fondation de la Bibliotheque Mazarine, et fur 
les Caufes qui ont favorife rAccroifTement du 
Nombre des Livres. 8«. Paris. 1819. 

Petzholdt (Julius). Addreffbuch Deutfcher 
Bibliotheken. 8«. Halle. 1853. 

The 4th and laft Edition of a Work of the highcfl; Authority on the 
Libraries of Germany. 

Preusker (Karl). Ueber ofFentliche Vereins- 
und Privat-Bibliotheken. 2 Parts in one Volume. 
8°. Leipzig. 1839-40. 

Santa (L. Delia). Delia Conflruzione e del 
Regolamento di una publica univeriale Biblio- 
teca. (With an Illuftration). Small 4°. Firenze, 
1816. 

The Author, who died about the Year 1830, was Secretary in the 
Bibliotheca Magliabecchiana at Florence. His Treatife on the Conftruc- 

tlon of a publick Library, is in high repute. 

Sims (Richard). Handbook, to the Library of the 
Britifh Mufeum ; containing a brief Hiftory of 
its Formation, and of the various Collecflions of 
which it is compofed ; Defcriptions of the Cata- 
logues in prefent Ufe ; clalfed Lifts of the 
Manufcripts, etc. ; with fome Account of the 
principal Libraries of London. 12^. London. 

1854. 

This Htde Manual of 418 Pages, contains a Catalogue of the printed 
Books of Reference in the Reading Rooms of tho Britifli Mufeum, re- 
garded as " indifpenfably necelTary to Students of all Denominations." 
Such a Catalogue will be found ufeful to thofc who have in Charge the 
Seledion of Books for our publick Libraries. 



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" There are tolerably good Hand-books to fome Departments of the 
Mufeum, but the Library is only vaguely known to thofe who have walked 
through it, or tried to fathom it through its Catalogues. Mr. Sims has un- 
dertaken to fiipply this Deficiency, and being officially connefted with the 
Manufcript Department of the Library, the Talk has been eafier for him 
than it would have been for an outfider. His Purpofe is two-fold — to 
give the publick a general Idea of the Contents and Arrangement of the 
Library, and to fcirnifh to literary Men and Readers, a fyftematized Means 
of Reference to the Treafures of the great Colledlion. The Work is 
executed with great Pains and confiderable Judgment, and will be found 
very ufeful. Altogether the Work, though not very interefting to the 
general Public, will be a Boon to the literary Man and the Book- 
worm." — Wefiminfter Review, Jan. 1854. 

VoisiN (Aug.). Documents pour fervir a I'HiftoIre 
des Bibliotheques en Belgique, et de leurs prin- 
cipales Curioiites litteraires. 8*^. Gand. 1840. 

VoisiN (Aug.). Statiftiques des principales Biblio- 
theques de I'Europe. 12". Bruxelles. 1837. 

The fullefl Statiftics of publick Libraries are to be found in the Report 
of the Seleft Committee, defcribed under the previous Head. The lafl 
Edition of Eficyclopedia Britannica contains a capital Afticle on Britifh and 
Foreign Libraries, by Edward Edwards, Efq. formerly of the Britifli 
Mufeum, and now Librarian of the Free Library, Manchefter. Prefixed 
are fome Remarks on library Economy. The whole Article occupies 
26 large quarto Pages. 



VIII, Oriental and ClaJJical Languages, 

ADELUNG (Friedrich). Bibliotheca San- 
fcrita. Literatur der Sanfkrit Sprache. 2^ 
Edition, enlarged and improved. 8^. St.- 
Peterfburg. 1837. 



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Adelung (Friedrich). An Hiftorical Sketch of 
Sanfcrit Literature, with copious bibliographical 
Notices of Sanfcrit Works and Tranllations ; 
tranllated from the German, with numerous 
Additions and Corredtions, by D. A. Talboys. 
8°. Oxford. 1832. 

" One of the moft rcfpcflable and ufcful Books which have for a long 
Time iflucd from the Prefs. It is, in fadl, a Vade Mccum, without 
which the Library of no Oriental Scholar can be cftecmcd pcrfcd ; pof- 
feffing a Clarification fo fyflcmatically regular, that all the known Trcaf- 
ures of this lacred Tongue are, as it were, at one Glance brought before 
the Enquirer." — Afiatic Journal. 

BoHN (H. G.). General Catalogue. Part Second. 
Greek and Latin Claffics, Commentaries and 
Tranflations. 8^ London. 1850. 

With Prices and occafional bibliographical Notices. 

Bruggemann (L. W.). a View of the Englifli 
Editions and Tranflations of the ancient Greek 
and Latin Authors, with Remarks. Thick 8°. 
Stettin. 1797. pp. 850. 

Clarke (Adam). Bibliographical Di<flionary, with 
Supplement. 8 Vols, fmall 8^. London. 1803-6. 

Containing an Account of Books in all Departments of Learning, pub- 
lilhed in the Latin, Greek, Hebrew, Arabick, and other callcrn Languages. 
The Supplement, in 2 Volumes, contains, among other Matter, an Account 
of the Englilli Tranflations of the Claflicks and Ecclcfiaftical Writers, with 
Lifts of the beft Arabick and Perfian Authors, Grammars, Lexicons, &c. 

DiBDiN (T. F.). Introdud:ion to a Knowledge of 
rare and valuable Editions of the Greek and 
Roman ClaiTicks. 4^'^ Edition, greatly enlarged 
and corrected. 2 Vols. 8''. London. 1827. 



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-* Engelmann (Wilhelm). Bibliotheca Scriptorum 
Clafficorum et Grsecorum et Latinorum. (6^^ 
Edition of Enflin's Bibliotheca Au5forum ClaJJico- 
rum, enlarged, &c. by Engelmann, with a Sup- 
plement.) 8*^. Leipzig. 1847-53. 

The moft complete Work of the Kind extant, giving an Account of all 
the Editions pubhfhed in Germany from 1700 to 1853. 

' EscHENBURG (J. J.). Manual of Claffical Literature, 
from the German, with Additions, by Prof. 
N. W. Fifke, of Amherft College, MalTachufetts. 
1 2^^ Edition, (or Thoufand.) 8°. Philadelphia. 

Ufed as a Text Book in many of our Colleges. It includes a View of 
Latin and Greek Authors, with Notices of Editions, &c. 

Fabricius (J. A.). Bibliotheca Grsca, ed. Harles. 
4^^ Ed, 12 Vols. 4". Hamburgi. 1690-1809. 

To this fhould be added an Index pubhfhed at Leipzic in 1838, in one 
quarto Volume. Of this Bibhotheca Dibdin fays : " All the known Edi- 
tions of the Greek Clafficks, with their Illuftrators, are recorded in this 
Work, accompanied by bibliographical and cridcal Remarks. There is 
nothing in our own or any other Language which can be put in Competi- 
tion with it." 

Fabricius (J. A.). Bibliotheca Latina, ed. Ernefti. 
3 Vols. 8*^. Lipfis. 1773-4. 

Fabricius (J. A.). Bibliotheca Latina Medias et 
Infimse ^tatis. 6 Vols. 4^ Patavii. 1754. 

FRiiEHN (C. M.). Indications bibliographiques re- 
latives pour la plupart a la Litterature hiftorico- 
geographique des Arabes, des Perfans, et des 
Turcs. (New Edition.) 8°. St. Peterfburg. 1845. 



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FuKST (J.). Bihliotheca Judaica Bibllographica. 
Handbuch der gelammten Jiidifchen Literatur, 
nach alphabetifcher Ordnung der VerfalTer bear- 
beitet. 2 Vols. 8°. Leipzig. 1849-51. 

GiLDEMEiSTER (J.). Bibliotheca Sanfcrita. 8". Bonna; 
ad Rhenum. 1847. 

Hebexstkeit (W.). Di6tionarium Edition um turn 
Seledlarum turn Optimaruni Aucfloruni Clairico- 
rum et Grascorum et Latinorum cum Notis 
criticis. 12°. Vindobons. 1828. 

A Manual in high Repute. 

Hadji-Khalfa-Mustafa (B. A. K. I.). Lexi- 
con bibliographicum et encyclopsdicum. Latine 
vertit et Commentariis Indicibufque inftruxit 
G. Fliigel. 6 Vols. 4^ Leipzig. 1835-52. 

A Work on Oriental Bibliography, &c, confifling largely of dcfcrip- 
tivc Titles. 

Herbelot (B. d'). Bibliotheque Orientale, aug- 
mentee par Schultens. Befl Edition. 4 Vols. 4". 
La Haye. 1777-82. 

A Treafure of ufeful Knowledge, which has done much to draw the 
Attention of Europeans to the Writings of the Afiatics. 

Hoffmann (S. F. W.). Bibliographifches Lexicon 
der gefammten Literatur der Griechen. 2^^ Ed. 
3 Vols. 8«. Leipzig. 1838-45. 

A Work of the higheft Authority. 

Hoffmann (S. F. W.). Handbuch zur Biicher- 
kunde fiir Lehre und Studium der beiden alten 



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klaffifchen und deutfchen Sprache. 8^. Leipzig. 



Very ufeful for Student^, 

Moss (J. W.). Manual of Claffical Bibliography. 
New Edition. 2 Vols. 8^. London. 1837. 

ScHOELL (pReD.). Repertoire de la Litterature 
Ancienne, ou Choix d'Auteurs Claffiques Grecs 
et Latins, imprimes en Allemagne et en France. 
2 Vols. 8«. Paris. 1808. 

ScHWEiGGER (L. P. A.). Handbuch der Klaffifchen 
Bibliographie. 3 Vols. 8^. Leipzig. 1830-4. 

The beft general Book of the Kind extant. Volumes 2 and 3 (Vol. 
2 Parts I and z in Reality), comprifmg the principal Part of the Work, 
are devoted to the L^tin Clafficks. 

WoLFius (J. C). Bibliotheca Hebraga. 4 Vols. 
4°. Hamburgi. 1715-33. 

Zenker (J. T.). Manuel de Bibliographie Ori- 
entale. 8°. Leipzig. 1846. 

/JT. Bibliography of Modern Nations^ or 
National Bibliographies. 

I . America. 

ALLIBONE (S. A.). A Critical Didionary 
of Englifh Literature, and Britiih and Ameri- 
can Authors, living and deceafed, from the 
earlieft Accounts to the Middle of the nineteenth 
Century. 



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This Didionary, now brought down to the Letter N, will probably be 
publiflied during the prcfent Year. A full Defcription of it is given under 
Scdion XII. The following Extrafl from a Letter of the veteran Biblio- 
grapher, Thos. Hartwcll Home, addrcfled to the Publifhcrs, will fhow the 
Importance of the Work in Connexion with American Bibliography. 

" Mr. Allibone's Lift of Authorities confulted includes, I believe, every 
Work of any Value. My own Knowledge of American Authors has 
hitherto been derived chiefly from the beft Edition of Allen'' s American 
Biography, and from Mr. Triibner's concife but truly valuable Guide to 
American Literature. But henceforth Mr. Allibone's Refearchcs will 
leave nothing to be defired." 

AsHER (G. M.). Bibliographical and Hiftorical 
Effay on the Dutch Books and Pamphlets relating 
to New-Netherland, and to the Dutch Weft- 
India Company. Small 4°. Amfterdam. 1854. 
pp. 120. Alio a Lift of the Maps and Charts 
of New-Netherland, and of the Views of New- 
Amfterdam, by G. M. Aftier ; being a Supple- 
ment to his Bibliographical Ellay on New- 
Netherland. Small 4°. Amfterdam, 1855. 
pp. 44. 

AspiNWALL (Col. J.). Bibliotheca America Sep- 
tentrionalis ; being a choice Colled:ion of Books 
relating to North America. 8^ Paris. 1820. 

Bibliographical Catalogue of Books, Tranflations 
of the Scriptures, and other Publications in the 
Indian Tongues of the United States. 8°. 
Waftiington. 1849. 

Bibliotheca Americana ; or a Chronological Cata- 
logue of the moft curious and interefting Books, 
Pamphlets, &c. upon North and South America, 



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in Print and Manufcript ; with an introdudtory 
Difcourfe on the prefent State of Literature in 
thofe Countries. 4°. London. 1789. 

Catalogue of Books on the Mafonic Inftitution, 
in public Libraries of twenty-eight States of the 
Union, Antimafonic in Arguments and Conclu- 
iions. By diftinguiihed Uterary Gentlemen, 
Citizens of the United States. With introductory 
Remarks by a Member of the Suffolk Commit- 
tee of 1829. S'^, Bofton. 1852. pp.270. 

A Work on Freemafonry rather than a Bibliography. Important in 
this Connexion however, as the Books referred to are all American. 

Dalrymple (Alexander). Catalogue of Authors 
who have written on the Rio de la Plata, Para- 
guay, and Chaco. 4*^. London. 1807. 

Faribault (G. B.). Catalogue d'Ouvrages fur 
I'Hifloire de I'Amerique, et en particulier fur 
celle du Canada, de la Louifiane, de I'Acadie, et 
autres Lieux. 8°. Quebec. 1837. pp. 207. 

In three Parts. The firft Part contains the Authors who have written 
on the Subjeft, arranged alphabetically ; the fecond, anonymous Works 
arranged chronologically } and the third, a Catalogue of Maps, Charts, 
and Plans. The Number of Works defcribed is 969, and to many of 
them defcriptive Notes by the Author, or Notes extrafted from other 
Works, are added. 

GiRARD (Charles). Bibliographia Americana Hif- 
torico-Naturalis ; or. Bibliography of American 
Natural Hiftory for 1851. 8^ Wafhington. 
1852, pp. 70. 

I. 



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GowANS (William). A Catalogue of Books on 
Freemafonry and kindred Subjedls. 12^. New 
York. 1858. pp. 59. 

Giving a Lift of Mafonick Publications, moftly American. 

Kennett (White.) Bibliothecas Americans Pri- 
mordia; an Attempt towards laying the Founda- 
tion of an American Library. 4°. London. 171 3. 

Kohl (J. G.). Defcriptive Catalogue of thofe 
Maps, Charts and Surveys relating to America, 
mentioned in Vol. IIL of Hakluyt's great Work. 
8°. Wafhington. 1857. 

LuDEWiG (H. E.), The Literature of American 
Local Hiflory ; a bibliographical Eflay. 8°. 
New York, i 846, Privately printed, 

LuDEWiG (H. E.). Triibner's Bibliotheca Glottica. 
The Literature of American Aboriginal Lan- 
guages by H. E. Ludewig. With Additions and 
Corrections by ProfefTor W. W. Turner. Edited 
by N. Triibner. 8°. London. 1857. pp. 283. 

The lateft Work of this eminent German Bibliographer. '* The Name 
of the Author to all thofe who are acquainted with his former Works, and 
who know the Thoroughnefs and profound Charaftcr of his Inveltigations, 
is a fufficient Guaranty that this Work will be one of ftandard Authority, 
and one that will fully anfwer the Demands of the prefent Time." — Pt'tz- 
huldt's Anxeiger,Ja7i. 1858. 

Meusel's Bibliotheca Hiftorica. Vols. 3 and 10. 
See under Section X. 

MuNSELL (Joel). The Typographical Mifcellany, 
8°. Albany. 18^50. pp. 267. 



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This Book belongs properly to another Sedion (IV) ; having been ac- 
cidentally omitted in its Place, we have introduced it here on account of 
its Importance in Connexion with American Bibliography. It gives many 
interefting Details refpefting American Printers, &c. 

Norton's Literary Regifter ; or. Annual Book Lift 
for 1856. 8«. New York. 1856. 

A Catalogue of Books publifhed in the United States during the Year ' 
1 855, including Reprints, and containing Titles, Number of Pages^ Prices, 
and Names of Publifliers, with an Index of Subjefts. Prefixed to this 
Catalogue is a Lift of the principal Publifliers in the United States. 

Rich (Obadiah). A Catalogue of Books relating 
principally to America, arranged under the Years 
in which they were printed, from 1500 to 1700. 
g°. London, 1832. pp. 129. 

Containing 486 Articles, being lefs by 66'] than the Number contained 
in Ternaux's Bihliotheque. 

Rich (Obadiah). Bibliotheca Americana Nova; 
or a Catalogue of Books in various Languages, 
^ relating to America, printed fince the Year 1700. 
8^. London. 1835. pp. 423. 

Rich (Obadiah). Supplement to the above. 1701- 
1800. 8°. London. 1841. pp. 424-508. 

Thefe two Catalogues (Bibliotheca and Supplement), although they 
contain 2523 Articles, are far from being complete. A Merchant of 
Providence, well known to the Amateurs of this Clafs of Books, has in his 
own private Colleftion 3231 early Works upon America, publifhed be- 
tween the Years 1700 and 1800, of which 15 12 arc not mentioned by 
Rich. He has alfo 11 74 Works publifhed previous to the Year 1700, 
of which 509 are not mentioned by Ternaux ; thus making 4405 separate 
WORKS relating to America and publifhed previous to the Year 1 800, of 
which 2021 were unknown to the eminent American Bibliographers 
whofe Catalogues are defcribed in this LIST. 



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Rich (Obadiah). Bibliotheca Americana Nova. 
1 801-1844. (With an alphabetical Index of 
Authors.) 8°. London. 1846. pp. 412. 

All of Rich's Catalogues are important, and eagerly fought for by Book- 
colleftors, efpccially the earlier ones, which have come to be exceedingly 
fcarce. Copies of the four Volumes above defcribed have recently been 
fold in New York for $50. They contain the Titles of the Worksin 
full, with Prices in many Inftances, and occafionally bibliographical Notes. 
Rich's Sale Catalogues of Works relating to America are alfo import- 
ant. One of thefe was publifhed in 1832 ; and a fccond in 1837. pp.40. 

Roorback (O. A.). Bibliotheca Americana; Cata- 
logue of American Publications, including Re- 
prints and original Works, from 1 820 to Odlober, 
1852, inclulive; together with a Lift of Period- 
icals publifhed in the United States. Royal 8". 
New York. 1852. pp. 663. 

Roorback (O. A.). Supplement to the Biblio- 
theca Americana, from 06tober, 1852, to May, 
1855. Royal 8°. New York, 1855. pp. 227. 

Roorback (O. A.). Addenda to the Bibliotheca 
Americana; a Catalogue of American Publica- 
tions from May, 1855, to March, 1858. Royal 
8°. New York. 1858. 

Thefe Catalogues all give the Year, Size, Style of Binding, Price and 
Publifhcrs. The net Price of the Bibliotheca is $7 ; the Supplement, $3 ; 
and the Addenda $3. 

Ternaux-Compans (M. H.). Bibliotheque 
Americaine, ou Catalogue des Ouvrages relatifs a 
I'Amerique. 8°. Paris. 1837. 

This includes only thofe Works publiflied previous to the Year 1700. 



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It is much more complete than the correfponding Catalogue of Rich, 
containing 1 1 5 3 Articles, while the latter, as has been already mentioned, 
defcribes only 486 feparate Works. 

Trubner's Bibliographical Guide to American 
Literature ; being a claffified Lift of Books (with 
Prices), in all Departments of Literature and 
Science, publiftied in the United States of America 
during the laft 40 Years. With an Introduction 
(giving a brief Outline or Sketch of American 
Literature), Notes, three Appendices, and an 
Index. 12°. London. 1855. pp. 140. 

A very ufeful little Work, fuggefting the Need of a more extenfive one 
upon a fimilar Plan, by fome Bibliographer in this Country. Mr. Triibner 
alio pubHfhed in 1856, a fmall oftavo Pamphlet of 8 Pages, containing a 
Lift of the Books on the Military Arts and Sciences printed in the United 
States. 

Warden (D. B.). Bibliotheca Americana ; being 
a choice Collediion of Books, Maps, Engravings, 
and Medals relating to North and South America 
and the Weft-Indies, including Voyages to the 
Southern Hemifphere, Maps, Engravings and 
Medals. 8°. Paris. 1840. pp. 124. 

To this Lift lliould be added Duyckinck's valuable Cyclopaedia of 
American Literature, 2 Vols, royal %°. New York, 1856, which, although 
biographical rather than bibliographical, is intended to exhibit and illuftrate 
the Produ6ts of the American Pen ; Grifwold's Poets and Poetry of America, 
with an hiftorical Introduction, 8°. Philadelphia, 1855 ; Grifwold's Female 
Poets of America, 8°.; Grifwold's Profe Writers of America, 8°. The In- 
quirer under this Head will alfo confult the Literary World, 1 5 Vols. \^. 
New York, 1847-53 ; Norton's Literary Gazette, 3 Vols, fmall foho, and 
I Vol. 40. New York, 185 1-4; Norton's Literary Almanac and Regifer, 
for 1852, 1853, 1854; The Publijher's Circular, a weekly Periodical 



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commenced in New York in 1855, and ftill continued ; Portfolio, 5 Vols. 
40. and 42 Vols. 80. Philadelphia, 1801-27; Anale£lic Magazine, 16 
Vols. 8°. Philadelphia, 1813-20; North American Review, Biblical Rc- 
pojitory and Bibliotheca Sacra, Chrijiian Examiner, Methodiji ^arterly. 
Democratic Review, Silliman^s Journal, New York Review, Southern 
Quarterly Review, and other leading Periodicals of the Day. A good 
bibliographical Work on American Literature is univerfally regarded as a 
Defideratum. Mr. Henry Stevens, of Vermont, a graduate of Yale Col- 
lege, has for feveral Years paft rcfided in London, partly as an American 
Agent for Books, but more efpecially to avail himfclf of the rich biblio- 
graphical Treafures of the Bridfh Mufeum, in the Preparation of a moll 
important Work, to be called The Bibliographia Americana. This will 
contain a bibliographical Account of the Sources of American Hiftory, 
comprifmg a Defcription of Books relating to America prior to the Year 
1700, and of all Books printed in America from 1543 to 1700, together 
with Notices of many of the more important unpubliflied Manufcripts. 
When the Work is ready for the Prefs, it will be publiflied in two quarto 
Volumes. Its Importance to the future Hiftorian will be ineftimable. Would 
that fome patient, labor-loving Bibliographer like Lowndes, Querard, or 
Gamba, might continue this Work down to the prefent Time, that wc 
might thus, in our National BibHography, compare favourably with Great 
Britain, France, and Italy. Mr. Stevens has recently publilhed a Cata- 
logue of fuch Books in the Library of the Britifh Mufeum as relate to 
America. 

2. Great Britain. 

Anderson (Chriftopher). The Annals of the 
Englifh Bible. 2 Vols. 8°. London. 184;. 

An excellent Work publifhed by Pickering. The Appendix to the 
fecond Volume contains a Lift of the various Editions of the New Tcfta- 
ment and the Bible irl Englifh, with certain publick Libraries and indi- 
vidual Proprietors in Poflcfrion of Copies ; ferving as an Index to the 
preceding Annals or Hiftory. 

Beloe (William). Anecdotes of Literature and 
fcarce Books. 6 Vols. 8°. London. 1807-12. 



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A Work containing much bibliographical Information, and Extrafts 
from curious Books, moftly Englifli. The Notices are not always to be 
depended upon. 

BoHN (John). A Catalogue of an extenfive Col- 
ledlion of Englifh Books ; to which is appended 
a Seled;ion of valuable foreign Books, and a Spe- 
cimen of an intended Claffical Catalogue. 8°. 
London. 1829. 

Ufeful as part of a bibliographical Apparatus. The Notes and De- 
fcriptions interfperfed throughout add to its Value. 

Brydges (S. E.). Cenfura Literaria; containing 
Titles, Abftradts, and Opinions of old Englifh 
Books, with original Difquifitions, &c. Seco?2d 
and beji Edition, rearranged and enlarged, with a 
general Index. 10 Vols. 8°. London. 1815. 

" A Work juftly held in high Eftimation by all Antiquarians in Litera- 
ture." — l,owndes. 

Brydges (S. E.). The Britifh Bibliographer. 
(With Portraits,) 4 Vols. 8°. London. 1 810-14. 

Brydges (S. E.). Reftituta; or Titles, Extrad:s 
and Characters of old Books in Englifh Litera- 
ture revived. 4 Vols. 8°. London. 18 14-16. 

Many hundred Volumes in old Englifh Literature are here defcribed; 
fome of the Articles however are unneceflarily prolix. 

Catalogue of all the Plays ever printed in the 
Englifh Language. 8°. London. 1726, 

Clavel (Robert). General Catalogue of Books 
printed in England, from 1666 to j68o. 3*^ Ed. 
Folio. London, 1680, 



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Cotton (Henry). Editions of the Bible and Parts 
thereof in EngHfli, from 1505 to 1H50; with 
an Appendix containing Specimens of Tranfla- 
tions, and Bibliographical Defcriptions. 2'^ Ed. 
8°. Oxford. 1852. 

Cotton (Henry). Rhemes and Doway, An 
Attempt to fhow what has been done by Roman 
Catholics for the Diffufion of the Holy Script- 
ures in Englifh. 8°. Oxford. 1855, 

Foster (B. F.). The Origin and Progrefs of 
Book-keeping ; comprifing an Account of all the 
Works on this Subjed:, publiflied in the Englifh 
Language, from 1543 to 1852, with Remarks, 
critical and hiftorical. 8°. London. 1852. pp. 
54. 

Griffith (A. F.). Bibliotheca Anglo-Poetica ; 
or a defcriptive Catalogue of a rare and rich 
Collecflion of early Englifh Poetry. Illuftrated 
by occafional Extracts and Remarks, critical and 
biographical. 8°. London. 1815. 

An important Addition to Britifli Bibliography, comprehending more 
poetical Works than any other Publication of the Kind. They arc de- 
fcribed with unufual Minutenefs and Accuracy, 

Halliwell (J. O.). Shakefperiana ; a Catalogue 
of the early Editions of Shakefpeare's Plays, and 
of the Commentaries and other Publications 
illuftrative of his Works. 8°. London. 1841, 
pp. 46. 

Undertaken, as the Author ilatcs in the Preface, chiefly with a View of 
fupplying the Critick and Student with the Means of afcertaining at once 



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what Sources are available on any particular Points of Inquiry in Shake- 
fperian Criticifm, and affording the latter a Manual of bibliographical 
Information which is indifpenfable to the Attainment of any correct Know- 
ledge in that Department of Literature. 

Hume (Rev. A.). The Learned Societies and 
Printing Clubs of the United Kingdom. 2^ 
Edition, with a Supplement by A. I. Evans. Pofh 
8°. London. 1853. 

An exceedingly ufeful Work, containing an Account of the learned Socie- 
ties and printing Clubs of England, Scodand, and Ireland, their refpeftive 
Origin, Hiftory, Objedls, and Conftitution ; with- full Details refpefling 
Memberlhjp, Fees, L(/?s of their publijhed Works, etc. etc. The Supple- 
ment, confining of 72 Pages, brings the Work down from 1847, the 
Date of its lirft PubUcadon, to 1853. 

London Catalogue of Books, with their Sizes, 
Prices, and Publifhers ; containing the Books 
publifhed in London, and thofe altered in Size or 
Price, 1800-1827. 8°. London. W.Bent. 1827. 

This Catalogue, now well known as the London Catalogue, was firfl 
publifhed in 1766, and included the Tides of all Books publifhed in Lon- 
don from the Beginning of the 1 8th Century. It has been frequendy 
reprinted. 1773, 1779, 1799j 1805, i8ii, 1812, 1822, &c. 

London Catalogue, 1 8 14- 1839. 8°. London. 
R. Bent. 1839. 

London Catalogue, Supplement, 1 839-1 844. 8°. 
London. T. Hodgfon. 1844. 

All the Catalogues above mendoned are confined to Books publifhed in 
London. 

London Catalogue of Books publifhed in Great 
Britain ; with their Sizes, Prices, and Publifh- 
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ers' Names, 1831-1855. 8^ London. T. 
Hodgfon. 1855. 

The Defeft of all the London Catalogues is, that they do not give 
Dates. In this laft Edition, however, the Dates of Works relating to 
Voyages and Travels, as well as Statutes, Law Reports, &c. arc infertcd. 

London Catalogue. Bibliotheca Londinenfis ; a 
clafTified Index to the Literature of Great Britain 
during thirty Years ; arranged from and ferving 
as a Key to the London Catalogue of Books, 
1814-46. 8°. London. T. Hodgfon. 1848. 

Low (Sampfon). The Britifh Catalogue of Books 
pubhfhed from Od:ober 1 837 to December i 85 1 ; 
containing Date of Publication, Size, Price, Pub- 
lifhers' Names, and Edition. Vol. L General 
Alphabet. 8°. London. 1852. 

A fecond Volume is announced, which will be a complete Index to the 
firft, fyftematically arranged, fo as to afford eafy Reference to all Works 
upon any given Subjedt. Low's Catalogue is more ufeful to Bibliographers 
generally than the London Catalogue, inafmuch as it gives Editions and 
Dates. 

Lowndes (W. T.). The Bibliographer's Manual 
of Englifh Literature. 4 Vols. 8°. London. 

1834. 

The only general bibliographical Work of the Kind, with the Exception 
of Watt's Bibliotheca Britannica, ever publiflied in England. It contains 
Notices of upwards of fifty thoufimd dillinft Books, publifhed in Great 
Britain and Ireland, from the Invention of Printing to 1834. To thefe 
Notices are annexed, i . A concife Account of the Merits of the Work, 
taken from Reviews, and Writers of ertabliflied Reputation. 2. Its peculiar 
bibliographical Q.\\2,xz^Q.x. 3. Collations of the Contents of the rarer and 
more important Articles, including a Lift of the Plates. 4. References 



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to the Number in the Catalogues of celebrated Sales, fpecifying the Price 
for which the Work was fold. The Manual is now out of Print and 
fcarce. Copies having been fold at Audlion in New York for $50, at 
£,'] 7s. in London, and at private Sale Hill higher, A new Edition is 
announced by Bohn, the firft Volume of which has already appeared. 
Poft 8°. London. 1858. 

Macray (W. D.). a Manual of Britifh Hifto- 
rians to the Year 1 600; containing a chronological 
Account of the early Chroniclers and monkifh 
Writers, their printed Works and unpublifhed 
MSS. 8°. London. 1845. 

Malone (Edmond). Catalogue of early Englifli 
Poetry, colle(fled and now preferved in the Bo- 
dleian Library. Folio. Oxford. 1836. 

Martin (John). Bibliographical Catalogue of 
Books privately printed in England. 2 Vols. 
Imp. 8°. London. 1834. 

Michel (Francifque) . Bibliotheque Anglo-Sax- 
onne. 8°. Paris and London. 1837. 

The Introduftion confifts of a Letter to the Author of 63 Pages, from 
J. M. Kemble. 

MouLE (Thomas). Bibliotheca Heraldica Magns 
Brittanni^. An Analytical Catalogue of Books 
on Genealogy, Heraldry, Nobility, Knighthood 
and Ceremonies. Royal 8°. London. 1822. 

An accurate and valuable Work, fays Lowndes, confifting of pp. xxiii 
and 668, with a Portrait of Camden. 

Nichols (John). Literary Anecdotes of the 
Eighteenth Century, comprifing Memoirs of W. 



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Bowyer, Printer, &c. 9 Vols. lUuftrations of 
the Literary Hiftory of the Eighteenth Century, 
7 Vols. Together 1 6 Vols. 8°. London. 1 8 1 2-48. 

Not iTiridly an Englifh bibliographical Work, but too important in this 
Connection to be omitted. It is too dear for ordinary Purchafers. 

' NicoLSON (William). EngliOi, Scotch, and Irifh 
Hiftorical Libraries, giving a Ihort View and 
Character of moft of our Hiftorians, with an 
Account of our Records, Law Books, Coins, &c. 
Royal 4°. London. 1776. 

• Publisher's Circular, and General Record ot 
Britifli and Foreign Literature ; containing a 
complete Alphabetical Lift of all New Works 
publiihed in Great Britain, and of every Work 
of Litereft publifhed abroad. Alio Advertife- 
ments conne(5ted with Literature and the Fine 
Arts ; to which is annexed, a complete alphabet- 
ical Catalogue of New Books and new Editions, 
including Pamphlets, lingle Sermons, 6cc. with 
the Sizes, Prices, Dates of Publication, and Pub- 
lifhers' Names. 1837-57. Vols. 1-20. 8^^ 
London. S. Low & Son. 1837-57. 

' Reid (John). Bibliotheca Scoto-Celtica ; or an 
Account of all the Books which have been 
printed in the Gielic Language ; with biblio- 
graphical and biographical Notices. 8°. London. 
1832. 

RiMBAULT (E. F.). Catalogue of Mufical and 
Poetical Works publifhed in England in the 1 6th 



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and 17th Centuries, under the Titles of Madri- 
gals, &c. 8°. London. 1847. 

RiTSON. (Jofeph). Bibliographia Poetica ; a Cata- 
logue of Englifh Poets of the 12th, 13th, 14th, 
15th and 1 6th Centuries, with a fhort Account 
of their Works. Crown 8°. London. 1802. 

Savage (James). The Librarian ; being an Ac- 
count of fcarce, valuable and ufeful Englifh Books, 
Manufcripts, Libraries, Public Records, &c. 3 
Vols. (18 Numbers.) 8°. London. 1808-9. 

This is an excellent Work though now fcarce. It is particularly ufeful 
in pointing out the Number of Plates which ought to be found in complete 
Copies of rare and coftly Books, Number 19, Volume IV, pp.48, 
was publifhed. 

Smith (J. R.). A Bibliographical Lift of all Works 
Illuftrating the Provincial Dialects of England. 
8°. London. 1846. 

Stevens (Henry). Catalogue of my Englifh 
Library. Pofl 8°. London. 1853. pp.118. 

This Httle Book was printed for private Diftribution. It gives a feleft 
Lift of 5751 Volumes of the beft Editions of the principal ftandard Eng- 
lifh Authors, with the Contents of each Volume. The Introduftion con- 
tains fome important Suggeftions in regard to Duties on Books. 

Thomson (R. D.). Illufbrations of the Hiftory of 
Great Britain. 2 Vols. 12''. Edinburgh. 1828. 

The Introduftion, Pages 113, is on the Sources of Britifli Hiftory. 

Upcott (William). A Bibliographical Account 
of the principal Works relating to Britifli Topo- 
graphy. 3 Vols. 8°. London. 1818. 

A Work of ereat Value. 



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Walpole (Horace). Catalogue of Royal and 
Noble Authors of England ; enlarged and con- 
tinued by Park. 5 Vols. 8°. London. 1806. 

Wright (Thomas). Biographia Britannica Lite- 
raria; or Biography of literary Characters of 
Great Britain and Ireland, arranged in chrono- 
logical Order. Anglo-Saxon and Anglo-Norman 
Periods. (With bibliographical Lifts of Works, 
&c.) 2 Vols. 8°. London. 1842-6. 

Watt (Robert). Bibliotheca Britannica; or a 
General Index of Britilh and Foreign Literature. 
4 Vols. 4°. Edinburgh. 1824. 

A Work of immenfe Labour, and of the highefl: Utility ; for, notwith- 
ftanding its Imperfedtions, it contains a Mafs of the moft valuable Matter, 
difpofcd in fuch a Form as to be of great Affiftance to Perfons defirous of 
afcertaining what Works have been written on a particular Subjeft, or by 
a particular Author. Vols, i and 2 contain an alphabetical Catalogue of 
Authors and their Works. Vols. 3 and 4, a general Index. It was 
publifhed at £11 lis. in bds. The Author's Death in 1819, was occa- 
fioned, it is faid, by his laborious Exertions in compiling this Bibliography. 

Wilson (John). Shakfperiana. Cataloge of all 
the Books, Pamphlets, &c. relating to Shakfpeare; 
to which are fubjoined an Account of the early 
quarto Editions of the great Dramatift's Plays 
and Poems, the Prices at which many Copies 
have fold in public Sales, with a Lill of principal 
Editions of his colleded Works. Poft 8°. Lon- 
don. 1827. pp, 1 10. 



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3. France. 

BiBLiOGRAPHiE de la France, ou Journal general de 
rimprimerie et de la Librairie et des Cartes geo- 
graphiques, &c. 47 Vols. 8°. Paris. 181 1-58. 

This weekly Periodical, which we have defcribed under Se£lion XIII, 
is really the firft of its Kind, fhowing how the yearly Accumulation of 
literary Works can be recorded in the moft authentick Manner. The 
Numbers conftitute a Series of 47 oftavo Volumes, with carefully pre- 
pared Tables or Indexes. 

BossANGE (Hedlor). Catalogue de Livres Franfals, 
Anglais, Allemands, Efpagnols, Grecs et Latins, 
Italiens, Portugais, Orientaux, etc. etc. ; Suivi de 
Prix courants. Royal 8°. Paris. 1845. pp, 984. 

Giving the Titles moftly of French Books with current Prices. They 
are arranged according to Subjedls, with a Divilion appropriated to each 
Department of Literature, Science, and Art, and a general Index. The 
Author has fince pubhfhed five Supplements, containing in addition to 
Tides of Books, priced Catalogues and Defcriptions of Church Ornaments, 
optical, philofophical, mathematical, aftronomical and nautical Inftruments, 
anatomical Models in Wax, &c. &c. All of Boffange's Catalogues are 
indifpenfable Manuals for the Colleftor of foreign Books. 

BossANGE (Hed:or). Ma Bibliotheque Fran9aife. 
Poft 8°. Paris. 1855, 

This is an elegantly printed and very ufeful Book of 480 Pages, giving 
a feleft Lift of about 7000 Volumes of the beft Editions of ftandard 
French Authors, to which is added a threefold Index of Subjefts, Authors, 
and Perfons. The peculiar Merit of the Work, afide from the good 
Judgment and Skill evinced in the Seleftions, is, that it is a model Cata- 
logue, giving brief biographical Notices of the Authors, and adding to 
the Tides of all co]lefted Works, the accurate Contents of each Volume. 



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BossANGE (Hecftor) & Fils. Bulletin Biblio- 
graphique ; Lifte des Ouvrages nouveaux publics 
en France. Duodecimo. Paris. 

A fmall monthly Sheet of eight Pages. It has now entered upon its 
29th Year. 

Delandine (a. p.). Memoires bibliographiques 
et litteraires. 8°. Lyons. 18 17. 

Desessarts (N. L. M.). Siecles Litteraires de la 
France, ou nouveau Di^lionnaire hiftorique, 
critique, et bibliographique des Ecrivains Fran- 
9ais jufqu'a la Fin du XVI IP Siecle. (With 
Supplement.) 7 Vols. 8°. Paris. 1800-3. 

DiCTlONNAiRE biographiquc et bibliographique des 
Predicateurs et Sermonnaires Fran^ais, par I'Abbe 
dela P. 8°. Paris. 1824. 

Ersch (J. S.). La France Litteraire ; contenant 
les Auteurs Fran^ais de 1771 a 1796. 5 Vols. 
8°. Hambourg. 1797- 1806. 

GiRAULT DE Saint-Fargeau (A.). Bibliographic 
hiftorique et typographique de la France, ou 
Catalogue de tous les Ouvrages imprimes julqu'au 
Mois d'Avril 1845. 4"- l^aris. 1845. 

GiRAULT DE Saixt-Farceau (A.). Bibliographic 
hiftorique et typographique dc la Ville de Paris. 
8°. Paris. 1847. 

Girault is a diftinguifhcd French Bibliographer, and the Author of many 
ufeful Works. 



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GoNAN (P. M.). Bibliographic Hiftorique de la 
Ville de Lyon pendant la Revolution Fran9aife. 
8°. Lyons. 1845. 

JouENAL general de la Litterature de France, ou 
Indicateur bibliographique et raifone des Livres 
nouveaux en tons Genres, Eftampes, Cartes 
geographiques, etc., qui parailTent en France, 
claffes par Ordre de matieres, 1798- 1840. 43 
Vols. (With Tables.) 8°. Paris. Treuttel & 
Wiirtz. 

" Not very exaft." — Brunei. 

Lelong (Le Pere J.). Bibliotheque Hiftorique de 
la France, contenant le Catalogue des Ouvrages 
imprimes et Manufcrits qui traitent de I'Hiftoire 
de-ce Royaume, avec des Notes critiques et hiilo- 
riques. (New Edition revifed and enlarged by 
M. Fevret de Fontette.) 5 Vols. Folio. Paris. 
1768-78. 

This is univerfally acknowledged to be the ableft and moft laborious 
Work which fpecial Bibliography has produced. It is fcarcely poffible 
to find a Volume or a Manufcript connefted with French Hiftory, not 
fully defcribed in fome one of the 50,000 Articles which make up the 
Work. The 5th Volume contains Additions and Correftions, and nine 
Indexes, geographical, chronological, alphabetical, &c., including a Table 
of anonymous Authors. 

QueRARD (J. M.). La France Litteraire, ou Dic- 
tionnaire bibliographique des Savants, Hiftoriens 
ou Gens de Lettres de la France, ainli que des 
Litterateurs etrangers qui ont ecrit en Fran^ais, 
plus particulierement pendant les XVIII^ et XIX^ 
Siecles. lo Vols. 8°. Paris. 1827-39. 
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La France Litterairc is the moit cxtcnfivc and complete Work on 
national Bibliography extant. It gives an Account, pot only of French 
Authors and their Works in all Departments of Literature, but alfo of 
others who have written in the French Language during the i8th and 19th 
Centuries, The Defcriptions and critical Remarks are very full, and 
the Prices are generally given. Each Volume averages 650 Pages of 
double Colurnns in fmall, clear Typt^- Querard is ari indefatigable Biblio- 
grapher whofe Reputation, Boflange remarks, is as univerfal as well de- 
ferved. He publifhes at the prefent Time a monthly Periodical called 
Le ^'erard Journal de Bibliographie et Billiographie Frav^aife, which is 
highly ufeful. 

QueRARD (J. M.). La Litterature Fran9aire Con- 
temporaine, 1827-49, par Felix Bourquelot. 6 
Vols. 8°. Paris. 1842-57. 

Commenced bv Querard in Continuation of his great Work, l,a France 
Litteraire, and completed by Bourquelot, 

QueRARD (J. M,). Les Ecrivains Pfeudonymes, 
&c, 8°, Paris. 1854-5. 

QueRARD (J. M.). Les Supercheries Litteraires 
devoilees. Galeries des Auteurs apocryphes, 
deguifes, plagiaires, et des Editeurs infideles de la 
Litterature Fran^aife pendant les quatre derniers 
Siegles. 4 Vols. 8°. Paris. 1847-52. 

Ventouillac (L. T.). The French Librarian, 
or Literary Guide, pointing out the beft Works 
of the principal Writers of France, in every 
Branch of Literature, with Criticifms, perfonal 
Anecdotes, and bibliographical Notices. 8". 
London, 1829. 

Brunet, defcribed under Secfljon X, although a 



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general Work, is very rich in the Department of 
French Bibliography ; fo alfo is the Biographie 
Univerfelle, noticed under Sediion XII, a Work 
abfolately neceflary to the bibliographical Appa- 
ratus of a firft Clafs Library. 

4. Germany. 

AsHER (Adolphus). A Bibliographical Ellay on 
the Scriptores Rerum Germanicarum. 4°. Lon- 
don and Berlin. 1843. 

Giving a detailed bibliographical Account of twenty-two Colleftions of 
contemporary German Hiftorians, publifhed from 1532 to 1841 ; with a 
Lift of all the Authors noticed in thefe Colleftions, arranged according to 
the Periods to which their Writings refer, and an alphabetical Lift of the 
Editions of each Author incorporated in the Scriptores Rerum Germanica- 
rum. The Information contained in this Eflay is very important, and 
cannot be found elfewhere, at leaft in fo convenient a Form, 

BuDERUS (C. G.). Bibliotheca Scriptorum Rerum 
Germanicarum. Folio. Jena. 1730. 

BiicKNER (R.). Bibliographifches Handbuch der 
deutfchen dramatifchen Literatur. 4°. Berlin. 

1837- 

Engelmann (Wilhelm). Bibliotheca Geographica. 
2 Vols. 8°. Leipzig. 1858. 

A clafTified Catalogue of all the Works on Geography and Travels 
pubhfhed in Germany from the Middle of the 14th Century down to the 
End of the Year 1856; with Prices and a complete Index. 

Engelmann (Wilhelm.). Bibliothek der fchonen 
WifTenfchaft. (A Lift of German Romances, 



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Plays, and Poems, publifhed from 1730 to 1845, 
with Prices, &c.) 2 Vols. 8°. Leipzig. 1837-46. 

Engelmann (Wilhelm). Bibliotheca Philologica. 
(A Lift of Greek and Latin Grammars, Didiona- 
ries, &c. publiflied in Germany, from 1750 to 
1852, with Prices, etc. 3*^ Ed. 8". Leipzig. 1853. 
Alfo, Bibliotheca Juridica. 2 Vols. & Supplement. 
8". Leipzig. 1 840-9 ; Bibliotheca Mechanico- 
Technologica. 8°. Leipzig. 1 844 ; Bibliotheca 
Scriptorum Clafficorum. 8°. Leipzig. 1847-53; 
Bibliotheca Medico-Chirurgica et Anatomico- 
Phyfiologica. 8°. Leipzig. 1 848 ; Bibliotheca 
CEconomica. 8^. Leipzig. 1841 ; Bibliotheca 
Veterinaria, 8°. Leipzig. 1 843 ; Bibliotheca 
Zoologica et Paleontologica. 8°. Leipzig; Biblio- 
thek der Forft und Jagdwillenichaften. 8". Leip- 
zig, 1843; Bibliothekder Handlungfwiirenfchaft. 
8°. Leipzig, 1 846 ; Bibliothek der neueren 
Sprachen, 1800-41. 8°. Leipzig. 1842. Total 
12 Vols. 8°. Leipzig. 1840-53. 

Thefe are all feparate Catalogues, with Prices, of the Books on Tech- 
nology, the Clafficks, Zoology, the Healing Art, Anatomy, Surgery, &c. 
which are publilhed in Germany, and the adjoining States. They arc 
very accurate and valuable. 

Ersch (J. S.). Handbuch der deutfchen Litera- 
tur. 2^^ Ed. 4 Vols. 8°. Leipzig. 1822-45. 

A clafTcd Catalogue of all the Books publiflicd in Germany from the 
Middle of the l8th Century, down to the prefent Time, continued by 
Rcfe and Gcifller, with Tables, &c. One of the very bell Works on 
German Bibliography. 



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Eesch (J. S.). Bibliographifches Handbuch der 
philofophifchen Literatur der Deutfchen, 1750- 
1850. 8^. Leipzig. 1850. 

Heinsius (Wilhelm). Algemeines Biicher-Lexicon. 
(With 6 Supplements.) 14 Vols. 4°. Leipzig. 
1812-56. 

An alphabetical Catalogue of all the Books publifhed in Germany from 
1 700 to 1852, with the Sizes, Dates, Prices, and PubHfhers' Names. The 
original Work, 1700-1810, was publifhed in 1812, 4V0IS.J the firft 
Supplement, 1811-31, was publillied in 1817-22, z Vols.; the fecond, 
1822-27, was pubUfhed in 1829, i Vol.; the third, with Corredtions by 
Kayfer, 1828-34, was pubhfhed in 1836-8, 2 Vols.; the fourth, by O. A. 
Schulz, 1835-41, was publifhed in 1846-9, 2 Vols.; the fifth, 1842-46, 
was pubhfhed in 1848-9, 2 Vols.; the fixth Supplement, by L. F. A. 
Schiller, 1847-52, was pubhfhed in 1853-6, i Vol. Ebert fpeaks of 
the firft Part of this Work as " extremely faulty and uncertain." The 
Supplements are prepared with more Care, and are far better Specimens 
of Typography. A feventh Supplement, 1852-6, is in Progrefs. 

HiNRiCHS (T. C). Verzeichnifs der Biicher, 
Landkarten, &c. (Catalogue of all the Books, 
Maps, &c. including new Editions, publifhed in 
Germany from year to year, with Sizes, Prices, 
Publifhers, and claffified Indexes.) 12°. Leipzig. 

Germany takes Precedence of all Countries in the Book trade, and the 
Book trade takes Precedence of every other. The Number of publifhing 
and book felling Houfes of every Defcription in the Kingdoms and States 
of Germany, and the adjoining Countries where the German Language 
prevails, is fomewhat above a thoufand. Leipfic is the great Centre of 
this Trade, where the femi-annual Book Fairs are held at Eafter and 
Michaelmas. Thefe Catalogues, commenced in 1797, and now pubhfhed 
by Hinrichs in Leipfic, in common with other Bookfellers, who fubflitute 
their own Names for that of Hinrichs upon the Tide Page, are prepared 
with reference to thefe Fairs, and may therefore be regarded as the uni- 
verfal Catalogues of the German Bookfellers from half Year to half Year. 



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They conftitutc an important Part of German Bibliography. They 
are commonly fold as annual Catalogues, two being bound together. In 
Gottingcn alfo are publifhcd by Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht femi-annuaj 
Catalogues, very accurately and carefully prepared with the following 
Titles : Bibliotheca Thcologica, von C. J. F. W. Ruprecht ; Bibliotheca 
Philologica, vonL. Ruprecht; Bibliotheca Hijlorico-N aturalis, von E. A. 
Zuchold; Bibliotheca Medico-Chirurgica, von C. J. F. W. Ruprecht; 
Bibliotheca HiJJorico-Geographica, von G. Schmidt. 

Julius (N. H.). Bibliotheca Germano-Glottica. 
8°. Hamburgi. 1817. 

Kayser (C. G.). Vollftandiges Biicher-Lexicon, 
&c. (With 3 Supplements.) 13 Vols. 4°. Leipzig. 

183+-53). 

With the Exception of Heinfius, juft defcribed, the mort extenfive Work 
on German Bibliography extant; being an alphabetical Catalogue of all 
Books, &c. publifhed in Germany, in all Departments of Science, Art, 
and Literature, from 1700 to 1852, with Sizes, Prices, and Publifhers. 
It is a better printed Book than that of Heinfius, and more convenient for 
Ufe, there being fewer Supplements. The firll fix Volumes include the 
Works publifhed from 1700 to 1832 ; Volume VII is a iyftematick Index 
to thefe Volumes, prepared by L. Schumann, and publifhcd in 1838; 
Volumes VIII and IX conftitute a Supplement, from 1832 to 1841 ; 
Volumes X and XI a Supplement, frojn 1 841 to 1847; Volumes XII 
and XIII a Supplement, from 1847 to 1853, prepared by E. A. Zuchold. 
It is a Matter of Regret that this, like moft other Works on German 
Bibliography, gives fimply Titles, unaccompanied by critical or biblio- 
graphical Notices. Were the German Works in this Refpeft like the 
national Bibliographies of Lowndes, Querard, or Gamba, or the general 
Bibliographies of Ebert and Brunct, they would be far more ufeful. 

Schwab (Guftav). Wegweifer durch die Literatur 
der Deutfchen. Ein Handbuch fiir Laien ; 
heraufgegeben von Guftav Schwab und Karl 
Klupfel. 2^ Ed. 8°. Leipzig. 1847. 



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A third Edition of this capital Book on German Bibliography is an- 
nounced. The Works defcribed are arranged in ClafTes, an alphabetical 
Index of Authors being appended. The Notes are uncommonly full and 
accurate, and the Prices in all Cafes are giyen. As a Guide in the Forma- 
tion of a feleft Gerrqan Library it is an invalu3ble Manual. 

Taylor (William.). Hiftoric Survey of German 
Poetry, interfperfed with various Tranflations. 
3 Vols. 8°. London. 1828-30. 

Not ftriftly a bibliographical Work, hat too important in this Con- 
neftion to be omitted. 

Thimm (F. L. J.). The Literature of Germany, 
from its earlieft Period to the prefent Time. 
Edited hy W. H. Farn. 1 2°, London. 1 844. 

This is an ejfcellent litde Manual of 300 Pages, indicating the principal 
German Authors and their Works, with biographical and cridcal Notes, 
and Lifts of German Periodicals, Works upon German Literature, &c. 

Germany is efpecially rich in its literary Hifto- 
ries, many of which are highly irnportant to the 
Bibliographer, The General Bibliographical Die-' 
tionary of Ebert, defcribed under another Head, is 
invaluable for its Notices of Works in early Gerrqan 
Literature. 

5. Italy. 

BiBLiOGRAFiA Italiana offia Elenco generale delle 
Opere, ftarnpate in Italia, 1 1 Vols. 8°. Milan. 
1835-46. 

The firft Number of this monthly Periodical waspublifhed in January, 
1835. It is ftridlly bibliographical in its Charafter, giving the Tides, 
Pages, Prices, Publifhers, &c., with illuftrative Notes, of all Works pub- 
Hflied in Italy from Month to Month, and of all Italian Books publifhed 
in other Countries. Thcfe monthly Numbers at the End of each Year 
are bound up into oftavo Volumes, to which are appended ufeful Stadfticks, 



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and copious alphabetical and claffificd Indexes. A Set of thefc Volumes 
would be an invaluable Addition to any bibliographical Library. The 
Work was difcontinucd in 1 846. 

BiBLiOGRAFiA od Elenco ragionato delle Opere con- 
tenute nella Collezione de' ClalUci Italiani. 8°. 
Milan. 1 8 1 4. 

This gives a detailed Account of all the Italian Writers publifhed by the 
Claffico-typographical Society of Milan, as well as of the principal early 
Editions. 

BiBLiOGRAFiA del Romanzi e Poemi Cavallerefchi 
Italiani. 2^ Edition. 8°. Milan, i 



This excellent Bibliography is the Work of M. D. Gxtano dc' Contl 
Melzi, a celebrated Bookfellcr of Milan. It was firll publifhed in 1828. 

Brydges (S. E.). Res Literaris; Bibliographical 
and Critical. Odl. 1820 to Feb. 1822. 3 Vols. 
8°. Naples, 1821. Rome, 1821, Geneva. 1822. 

The main Objeft of thefe Volumes is Italian Literature, and cfpccially 
Italian Poetry, of which its Notices are very cxtenfive, Copies are now 
very rare, only 75 having been printed. Mr. Harrott's Set fold for j£8. 

Cantu (Ignazio). L' Italia Scientifica Contempo- 
ranea. 8°. Milan. 1844, 

Being the Biographies of the fcientifick Men of Italy, with Lifts of their 
Works. 

FoNTANiNi (Gjufto). Biblioteca dell' Eloquenza 
Italiana, con le Annotazioni del Signor Apoftolo 
Zeno. 2 Vols. 4°. Parma. 1803-4. 

The lateft and beft Edition of a Work rendered invaluable as one of 
the chief Sources, or as Ebcrt cxpreflcs it, " the chief Source for Italian 
Bibliography," by the copious Notes of Zeno. The firft Edition was 
publifhed in 1737. An Index to the laft Edition was publifhed ip ^ 
quarto Volume, in 181 i. 



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Gamba da Bassano (Bartolommeo). Delle No- 
velle Italiane in Profa Bibliografia. 2^ Edition. 
8°. Firenze. 1835. 

A detailed Account of the Works of the Italian Novellifts, arranged 
according to Centuries, from the 14th to the 19th, inclufive. Appended 
are the Colleftions of Novels of various Authors, and an alphabetical 
Index to the Whole. 

Gamba da Bassano (Bartolommeo). Serie dei 
Tefti di Lingua. 4th Edition. Royal 8°. Venezia. 
1839. pp.820. 

This is trulv an admirable Work, being to the Italian Bibliographer, 
what Rich is to the American, Lovi^ndes to the Englifh, Que'rard to the 
French, and Kayfer or Erfch to the German. The Notices are very- 
full and accurate. It is divided into two Parts, The firll contains the 
beft Editions, ancient and modern, of all the Works cited in the Vocabo^ 
lario degli Accademici della Crufca. In the fecond Part are defcribed the 
beft Editions of the principal Works publifhed fmce the Invention of 
Printing, either pertaining to the Study of the Language, or forming a 
Part of Italian Literature. Like the previous Work, this fecond Part is 
arranged according to Centuries, from the 1 4.th to the 1 9th inclufive. To 
the Whole is appended a copious alphabetical Index. Copies of this 
Work are now very fcarce. 

Haym (N. F.). Biblioteca Italiana oiia Notizia de' 
Libri rari Italiani. 2 Vols. 4°. Milan, 177 1-2. 

Beft Edition, well printed, and provided with a general Index. Haym, 
fays Ebert, can only be ufed with the greateft Precaution, in confequence 
of his general Inaccuracy. His Biblioteca neverthelefs is an important 
Part of Italian Bibliography. 

PoGGiALi (Gaet.). Serie dei Tefti di Lingua 
ftampati, che li citano nel Vocabolario della 
Crufca. 2 Vols. 8°. Livorno. 18 13. 

In addition to the above defcribed Works on Italian Bibliography, the Stu- 
dent fhould confuk the immortal Work of Tirabofchi, and alfo of Ginguene, 

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both of which, though literary Hillorics, give Accounts of Authors and 
their Produftions. For the lateft Publications in Italy the bcft Work is 
perhaps Archkno Storico Italiano, a Periodical publiflied in Florence. 

6. Spain, Portugal and Northern 
Europe. 

Adelung (Friedrich). Kritifch-literarifche Ueber- 
iicht der Reilenden in Ruflland bis 1700, deren 
Berichte bekannt find, von demfelben. 2 Vols. 
Large 8°. St. Peterfburg. 1846. 

Antonio (Nicolao). Bibliotheca Hifpana Vetus, 
ad Annum 1500. Curante F. P. Bayer. 2 Vols. 
Folio. Matriti. 1788. 

Antonio (Nicolao). Bibliotheca Hifpana Nova, ab 
Anno 1500, ad Annum 1684. 2 Vols. Folio. 
Matriti. 1783-8. 

Both thcfe Works arc highly cllecmcd for their Style and general Cor- 
redlnefs. The Vetus is in chronological, the Nova in alphabetical 
Order, according to the Chriftian Names of the Authors. Dibdin in his 
Lzir^ry Co?npanion, fpeaks of them as the mailer Key to unlock the 
Treafures of Spanifli Literature, adding : " If this Work of Antonio be 
valuable, it is unluckily rare and dear. I never faw but one Copy of it 
upon LARGE Paper ; and that one is magnificendy bound in red Morocco, 
in the Library of Francis Freeling, Efq." This identical Copy, or one 
preciiely like it, has recently found its way, among other choice literary 
Treafures, into the private Library of a Providence Merchant, to whofc 
Collcdlion we have already referred under Rich's Bibliotheca Americana. 

Bentkowskiego (F.). Hiftorya Literatury Pol- 
fkiey. (The Hiftory of the Polifli Literature 
exhibited in a Lift of Writings made known 
through the Prefs.) 2 Vols. 8°. Warfzawie. 
1814. 



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BoLETiN Bibliografico Efpafiole Eftrangero. 12°. 
Madrid 1840. 

Similar to the Bibliografia Italiana. It is a fortnightly Periodical, the 
iirft Number of which was publifhed iti Auguft, 1840. At the End of 
each Year thefc Numbers are bound together, with Indexes appended. 

BouTERWEK (Frederick). Hiftory of Spaniih and 
Portuguefe Literature, tranllated by Rofs. (With 
biographical and bibliographical Notices.) 2 
Vols. 8°. London. 1823. 

BuHLE (J. G.), Verfuch einer kritifchen Literatur 
der Ruffifchen Gefchichte. Theil L enthaltend 
die Literatur der alteren allgemeinen nordifchen 
Gefchichte. 8°. Mofkwa. 18 10. 

The z^ and 3"^ Volumes of this Work, which were announced, have 
not yet appeared. 

Casiri ( Michael] s). Bibliotheca Arabico-Hifpana 
Efcurialenlis. 2 Vols. Folio. Matriti. 1760-70. 

Containing large Extracts in the original Arabick and Latin from the 
MSS. in the Efcurial, with an Account of their Ages, and a Life of the 
Author when known. Gibbon has made great Ufe of it in his fifty-firft 
Chapter, and Harris, in his Philological Inquiries, has analyzed the Con- 
tents. The Book is a fine Specimen of Typography. 

Castro (J. R. de). Biblioteca Efpanola. 2 Vols. 
Folio. Madrid. 178 1-6. 

The firft Volume contains the Spanifh Rabbins, and the fecond the 
Heathen and Chriftian Writers to the End of the 13 th Century. 

CiNELLi (C. G.). Biblioteca Volante continuato 
da San Caffani. ^^ Edition. 4 Vols. 4°. Venezia. 
1734-47- 



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Lelewel (Joach.). Obfervations fur la Biblio- 
graphic Ancienne de la Pologne, avec I'Hiftoire 
des Bibliotheques dans ce Pays. (In Polifli.) 2 
Vols. 8°. Wilna. 1823-6. 

Machado (P. D. B.). Bibliotheca Lufitana 
Critica et Chronologica. 4 Vols. Folio. Lifbon. 
1741-59. 

The great Work on Portuguefe Bibliography, " beyond," fays Dibdin, 
" all Competition and beyond all Praife." The feven Indexes in the 
fourth Volume are regarded as the ve plus ultra of Diligence, Exaftnefs, 
and general Utility. It is rare and difficult to find, even in Portugal, and 
is confequendy very expenfive. 

Memorias de Literatura Portugueza, publiadas 
pela Real Academia das Sciencias de Lifboa. 8 
Vols. 40. Lifboa. 1785-18 12. 

Memorias de la Real Academia de la Hiftoria. 7 
Vols. 4°. Madrid & Sancha. 1796- 1832. 

" On remarque dans ce Recueil plufieurs Memoires curicux dc MM. 
Martin de Ulloa, Fr. Martinez Marina, Mart. Fern, de Navarrcte, Jos. 
Ant. Conde, etc." — Brunet. 

Napiersky(C. E.). Verzeichnifs der neu erfchienen 
Schriften zur Gefchichte Liv-, Efth- und Kur- 
lands. Fur die Jahre 1847-55. 8°. Regia. 
1857. 

Nyerup (R.). & Kraft (J. E.). Almindeligt 
Litteratur- Lexicon fur Denmark, Norge, og 
Ifland. 2 Vols. 4°. Kjobenh. 1820. 

A univerfal literary Lexicon of Denmark, Norway and Iceland, giving 
an Account of Authors and their Works, with Dates and Particulars of 

Ediuons. 



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Otto (Friedrich). Hiftory of Ruffian Literature, 
with a Lexicon of Ruffian Authors. Tranflated 
from the German by George Cox, 8°. Oxford. 

1839. 

The Lexicon occupies three hundred Pages, conftituting the principal 
Part of the Work. 

Recke & Napiersky. Algemeines Schriftfteller- 
und Gelehrten-Lexikon der Provinzen Livland, 
Efthland und Kurland. 4 Vols. Thick 8°. 
Mitau. 1827-32. 

An extenfive Account of the Literature of the Baltic Provinces of Ruffia, 
including a Portion of Poland and the eaftern Provinces of Pruffia. 

Salva (Vicente). Catalogue of Spanifh and Por- 
tuguefe Books, with bibliographical Remarks. 
2 Vols. 8°. London. 1826-7. 

Very valuable and extremely rare. Contributions to Spanifh and Por- 
tuguefe Bibliography are to be found in the Repertorio Atnericano, a London 
Journal, pubhfhed by Salva. 

Stukkenberg (J. C). Verfuch eines Quellen- 
Anzeigers alter und neuer Zeit fiir das Studium 
der Geographic, Topographic, Ethnographic und 
Statiftik des Ruffiifchen Reiches. 2 Vols. (With 
a Supplement). 8°. St. Peterfburg. 1849-52. 

TiCKNOR (George). The Hiftory of Spanifh Lite- 
rature. (With biographical and bibliographical 
Notices, and a copious Index.) 3 Vols. 8°. New 
York. 1849. 

Mr. Ticknor has probably the largeft private Colleftion of Spanifh 
Books out of Spain. His Hiftory is univerfally efteemed, having already 
been tranflated into feveral European Languages. 



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Warmholtz (C. G.). Bibliotheca Hiftorica Sueo- 
Gothica. (Hiftoric Library of Sweden, or. Indi- 
cation of Works, both printed and in Manufcript, 
relative to the Hiftory of Sweden, with critical 
Notices, continued by Aurivillius. In Swedijh.) 
15 Vols. 8°. Stockholm. 1782- 18 17. 

BossANGE, Barthes et Lowell's Catalogue des Livres 
Fran9ais, Italiens, Efpagnols, Orientaux, &c. is 
a very ufeful Work for the Bibliography of 
French, Italian, Spanifh, Portuguefe and Oriental 
Books. They are arranged in ClalTes, with Prices, 
occalional Notices, and an Index of Authors; 
the whole forming a Book of 538 Pages. 8°. 
London. 1843. 

X. General Bibliographies. 

THE Works which are to be confidered 
under this Section and the one following, 
fometimes called Dictioxaiue.s, fometimes 
Catalogues, and fometimes BiiiLiOTiiECE, conftitute 
the moft generally ufeful and interefting Clafs of 
bibliographical Publications. By ihowing what 
has been written in all the various Branches of 
human Knowledge in every Age and Country, they 
a(5t as Guides to the Inquiries of the learned ; while, 
by pointing out the Differences of Editions, etc. etc. 
they conftitute Manuals of ready Information for 
the profeffed Bibliographer. 

Works of this Clafs are called general or special. 



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according as their Obje(5l is to indicate Books in 
all, or in one only of the Departments of Science 
or Literature. The former only afpire to point 
out rare, remarkable or important Books; for no 
Attempt has yet been made, or probably ever will 
be made, to compile a complete universal biblio- 
graphical Didlionary. On the other Hand, it is 
the Objed: of special Bibliographies to notice all, 
or the greater Part, of thofe Books, that have been 
publiihed on the Subjedls which they embrace ; and 
hence their fuperior Utility to fuch as are engaged 
in the Study or Inveftigation of any particular 
Topic. It is by Means of fuch Works, fays Dr. 
Johnfon, that '* the Student comes to know what 
has been written on every Part of Learning ; that 
he avoids the Hazards of encountering Difficulties 
which have already been cleared ; of difcuffing 
Queftions which have already been decided ; and 
of digging in Mines of Literature which have 
already been exhaufted." (Preface to the Catologus 
BibliotheccE Harleiance.') 

Thus Bibliography, or a Knowledge of Books, if 
it may not afpire to be called Learning, may certainly 
be conlidered in this Light, as one of Learning's 
beft Helps. The following are fome of the moft 
important Works under this Head : 

Appleton's Library Manual; containing a Cata- 
logue Raifonne of upwards of 1 2000 of the moft 
important Works in every Department of Know- 
ledge, in all modern Languages. 8°, New York. 

1847. 



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Barbier (A. A.). Nouveau Bibliotheque d'un 
Homme de Gout, contenant des Jugements tires 
de Journaux les plus connus et des Critiques les 
plus eftimes, fur les meilleurs Ouvrages qui ont 
paru dans tous les Genres, tant en France que 
chez I'Etranger. 5 Vols. 8°. Paris. 1808-10. 

The Name of Defeffarts was put upon the title Page of this Edition, 
becaufe he fliared with Barbier the Expenfe of publifhing. He made no 
literary Contribution whatever to the Work. — ^lerard. Barbier's Biblio- 
theque was for a long Time regarded as indifpenfable to Book-colleftors. 

It is now fuperfeded by the more recent Diftionaries of Ebert and 
Brunet. 

BiBLioTHECA Grenvilliana, or Bibliographical No- 
tices of rare and curious Books, forming Part of 
the Library of the Right Hon. Thos. Grenville. 
By John Thos. Payne and Henry Fofs. Part I. 
2 Vols. 8°. London. 1842. 

BiBLioTHECA Grcnvilliana, Part the Second, com- 
pleting the Catalogue of the Library, bequeathed 
to the Britifli Mufeum by the late Right Hon. 
Thos. Grenville. By John Thos. Payne and 
Henry Fofs. 8°. London. 1848. 

The firft Part of this elegantly printed Catalogue was made at Mr. 
Grenville's own Expenfe. The Tides are arranged alphabetically accord- 
ing to the Names of Authors, accompanied by copious bibliographical 
Notes, and preceded by a good Index and References to the Books and 
Manufcripts upon Vellum. The prcfent Price of this Catalogue is ftated 
by Mr. Sims to be ^£3 3s. The fccond Part was made by Order of the 
Truflces after the Library had been depofitcd in the Mufeum. This can 
be purchafed for the Sum ol £i\ i is. 6d. The three Volumes conftitute 
an invaluable Acceffion to any Collcftion of Bibliographical Works, 
The firft two come more properly under Se6lion V., rare Books. 



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The Grenville Library, of which the Catalogues, here defcribed are the 
Inventory, was the Reftilt of a continued and unwearied Purfuit of nearly 
fifty Years on the Part of the illuftrious Colledlor. It was " formed and 
preferved," fays the Annual Report of Britifla Mufeum for the Year 1 847, 
" with the exquifite Tafte of an accompliflied Bibliographer, with the 
Learning of a profound and elegant Scholar, and the fplendid Liberality 
of a Gentleman in affluent Circumftances, who employed in adding to his 
Library whatever his generous Heart allowed him to fpare from filently 
relieving thofe whofe Wants he alone knew." It conhfts of 20,240 Vol- 
umes, forming about 16,000 Works, the Coft of which is ftated to have 
been upwards of £54,000. 

BoHN (H. G.). A Catalogue of Books. 8°. 
London. 1841, 

Commonly known as Bohn's Guinea Catalogue. It contains 2100 
Pages, bound in a fuperiour Manner, having been compiled, as the Pub- 
lifher ftates in his Preface, at an Outlay of upwards of two thoufand Pounds. 
The Books enumerated are in various Languages, arranged alphabetically 
according to Clafles as far as prafticable, accompanied with Prices and 
Indexes, and interfperfed throughout with bibhographical and literary 
Notices. The Catalogue reprefents, it is ftated, the largeft and moft feleft 
Aflbrtment of Books ever before recorded as the Stock of a Bookfeller. It 
is now being reproduced in three oftavo Volumes, two of which have 
already appeared ; the Jirfi (mentioned under Seftion L), in 1 847 ; and 
the y?r<?W (nientioned under Seftion VIIL), in 1850. All of thefe Cata- 
logues are invaluable as a Part of the Book-colle£lor's working Apparatus. 

Brunet (J. C). Manuel du Libraire et de 
TAmateur de Livres. 4^^ Edition. 5 thick Vols. 
Royal 8°. Paris. 1842-4. 

This Manual, the Refults of more than 40 Years of Experience and 
Refearch, is by far the moft extenfive and ufeful Work of the Kind extant. 
The original Edition was publilhed in three oftavo Volurnes in 1810. 
The firft four Volumes, confift of an alphabetical and defcriptive Cata- 
logue, of upwards of 20,000 of the moft important Works which have 
been publifhed, in the ancient, and in the principal modern Languages, 

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from the Invention of Printing to the prefcnt Time ; with the Hiftory of 
the different Editions, the Prices for which they have been fold within the 
laft 60 Years, critical Remarks, etc. etc. In the fifth Volume arc claflificd, 
in accordance with the bibliographical Syftem generally adopted in France, 
not only all the Works defcribedin the previous Volumes, but alfo 12,000 
additional ones, thus making 32,000 fcparate Works, or about 60,000 
Volumes, comprifed in the Manual. In this laft Volume may be found 
an extenfive Lift of bibliographical Works. No Library of Importance 
can difpenfe with Brunet. 

De Bure (G. F.). Bibliographie Inftrudlive, ou 
Traite de la Connoiflance des Livres rares et 
finguliers. 7 Vols. 8°. Paris. 1763-8. 

The Books defcribcd in this Work which might very properly come 
under another Head, arc arranged, in Subdivifions, under the five grand 
Clafles of Theology, JurtfprudeJice, Scievces and Jrts, Belles-Lettres, and 
Hijlory. The Names of the Authors in all thefe Clafles are placed alpha- 
betically in the laft Volume. De Bure publifhed a Supplement to this 
Work with the following Title : Supplement a la Bibliographie InJiruSlive, 
ou Catalogue des Livres de Louis Jean Gaignat. 2 Vols. 8°. Paris, 1769. 
An Index to anonymous Works was alfo publiflied in 1782, entitled, 
Bibliographie InftruSiive, Tome dixieme. Probably no Publication has 
contributed fo much to make the Study of Bibliography popular, as this 
elegant and judicious Performance. The Articles which the Author dc- 
fcribes amount to upwards of 6000, in regard to which ample Details arc 
given. The Account of the famous American Colledions of De Bry for 
Inftance, extends to 1 20 Pages. De Bure was a Bookfeller at Paris, of 
great Eminence in his ProfefTion, but ftill more diftinguifhed for extenfive 
Information in all Matters pertaining to Bibliography and literary Hiftory. 
His Works are much confulted at the prefent Day. 

Denis (F.). & P1N90N (P.). Nouveau Manuel 
de Bibliographie Univerfelle. Large 8°. Paris. 
1857. pp.718. 

Printed on indifferent Paper and in very fmall Type, three Columns 
to a Page. It contains an immenfe Number of Titles of Books of every 



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Kind arranged in chronological Order according to Subjcfts, and accom- 
panied by bibliographical and hiftorical Remarks. An alphabetical Index 
of Authors would add greatly to its Ufefulnefs. Appended is a detailed 
Account of the principal CoUeSlions Typographiques arranged in chronolo- 
gical Order, with a Catalogue of the moft celebrated private Libraries. 
We have already mentioned it under Seftion 11. on account of the biblio- 
graphical Information which it furnilhes under the appropriate Heads. 
The following Extrad: from the Preface will give an Idea of the general 
Charafter of the Work : 

" Ce Livre n'eft pas a proprement parler, un Manuel du Bibliophile, 
il ne s'adreffe pas excluiivement au Bibliographe de ProfefTion. Avant tout 
on a voulu qu'il put fournir un Renfeignement concis, une Reponfe precife, 
non fur la Beaute d'une Edition, fur la Rarete d'un Volume, fur le Prix 
arbitraire que I'Opinion accorde a certaines Raretes, mais bien fur la Serie 
d'Ouvrages a confulter en telle ou telle Occafion, par I'Homme de Lettres, 
I'Artifte ou le Savant." 

DiBDiN (T. F.). The Library Companion ; or, 
the Young Man's Guide, and the Old Man's 
Comfort in the Choice of a Library. Thick 8°. 
London. 1824. 

Containing a Selection of the moft important Works under the general 
Heads of Divinity, Hiftory, Voyages and Travels, Biography, Philology 
and Belles-Lettres, Poetry, and the Englifh Drama ; with copious biblio- 
graphical Notes, Prices, and a general Index, the Whole making a Volume 
of 912 Pages. 

DiCTioNNAiRE BiWiographique. 3 Vols. 8°. Paris. 
1790. 

This Work, generally known under theNameof Cailleau's Diftionary, 
was compiled according to Barbier, and others, by the Abbe du Clos. It 
was republifhed in 1 800, with a fupplementary Volume by M. Brunet. 
The laft Half of the third Volume, has a feparate Alphabet for anony- 
mous Works. 

Ebert (F. a.), a General Bibliographical Dic- 
tionary, from the German. 4 Vols. 8°. Oxford, 

1837- 



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The original Edition of this truly valuable Work was publifhed at 
Leipfic, with the following Title: Allgetneines bibllographifches Lexhon. 
z Vols. 4°. 1821-30. It is bafed upon the Manual of Brunet, but is 
fomewhat different in its Charafter, and quite as well adapted to the Wants 
of Scholars. Efpecial Attention is given to ancient German Literature 
and the Greek and Latin ClafTicks. The Author was Librarian to the 
King of Saxony, and hence was able to give his Defcriptions, as ftatcd in 
his Preface, from careful Compariibn of the Works thcmfclves, rather than 
from Manuals. His Dictionary is necefTary to all who cultivate Biblio- 
graphy. 

Georgi (J. T.). Allgemeines Europaifches Blicher- 
Lexicon. (Univerfal Diftionary of Books printed 
in Europe from 1500 to 1757, with the Date, 
Size, Number of Pages, and Price of each.) 8 
Vols. FoHo, (including three Supplements). 
Leipzig. 1742-58. 

A laborious Work, containing the Titles of more Books, than any other 
Catalogue or bibliographical Work ever publifhed. It is fcarce, but, ac- 
cording to Ebcrt, of but little Value " on Account of its Faultinefs through- 
out." 

GRassE (J. G. T.). Lehrbuch einer allgemeinen 
Literargefchichte aller bekannten Volker der 
Welt, von der alteften bis auf die neuefte Zeit. 

This is a general bibliographical Diftionary fimilar to thofe of Ebcrt 
and Brunet already defcribed. It is not yet completed. Pctzholdt's Anzeiger 
for July, 1857, announces Pages 1329-1536, Vol. III. as having recently 
been publillied at Leipfic. The Author is alfo preparing a new biblio- 
graphical Dictionary containing more than a thoufand Articles on rare and 
precious Books. A Part of Vol. I. pp. 96, has recently been publiflicd 
at Drefden, in a quarto Form. 

Leblanc (p.). Catalogue des Livres, DelTins et 
Eftampes, de la Bibliotheque de M. J. B. Huzard. 
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Volume I. contains the Titles of Works arranged under the five general 
Clafles or Divifions of Knowledge, as in Renouard and Santander ; Volume 
II. is devoted particularly to Agriculture and Rural Economy ; Volume III. 
is compofed of Works upon Medicine and the Veterinary Art, Memoirs 
of Academies and learned Societies, Works upon Bibliography, Biography, 
&c. Each Volume has a copious Index. Prefixed to the firft Volume is 
a biographical Notice of Huzard (who was General Infpeftor of the Ve- 
terinary Schools of France), by M. L. Bouchard, and a Eulogy pro- 
nounced in 1 841, before the Royal Academy of Medicine, by M. Parifet. 
This Catalogue, fays Dr. Cogfwell, is of great Value for " economick 
Bibliography." 

Martin (L. Aime). Plan d'une Bibliotheque 
Univerfelle ; Etudes des Livres qui peuvent fervir 
a rHiftoire litteraire et philofophique du Genre 
humain ; fuivi du Catalogue des Chefs-d'CEuvre 
de toutes les Langues et des Ouvrages originaux 
de tous les Peuples. 8°. Paris. 1837. 

Meusel (J. G.). Bibliotheca Hiflorica, poft 
Struvium et Buderum,nunc digefta,amplificata,et 
emendata; accedunt Indices Audlorum et Rerum. 
22 Vols, (in 11) 8°. Leipzig. 1782-1804. 

x^n uncommonly careful Reproduftion of a Work which firft appeared 
at Jena in 1 740. It is very extenfive in its Defign, comprehending both 
hiftorical and geographical Works, relating to all Countries and in all 
Languages. Vols. III. and X. relate to American Bibliography. 

NoDiER (Charles). Defcription Raifonnee d'une 
jolie Collediion de Livres, (moftly French, Italian 
and Spanifh) ; precedee d'une Introdud:ion par 
M. G. Dupleffis, de la Vie de Nodier par M. 
Francis Wey, et d'une Notice bibliographique 
fur fes Ouvrages. 8°. Paris. 1844. pp.528. 

The copious Notes to this Catalogue render it a defirable Work for a 



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bibliographical Collcftion. It contains 1254 Titles, the Dcfcriptions 
occupying the greater Part of the Volume. 

Renouard (a. a.). Catalogue de la Bibliotheque 
d'un Amateur, avec Notes bibliographiques, 
critiques etlitteraires. 4 Vols. 8°. Paris. 1819. 

A fine Specimen of Typography. The Works are arranged under the 
five general Divifions of Theology, Jurifprudcncc, Sciences and Arts, 
Belles-Lettrcs, and Hillory. The fourth Volume contains a feparate Lift 
of the Books printed in the 15th Century, the Aldine Editions, Books 
printed upon Vellum, Defigns, and a complete Index of Authors. The 
bibliographical' and critical Notes are very full and inftrudtive. The 
Work is really a Bibliography rather than a Catalogue, and hence finds 
its appropriate Place in this List. 

RoLLAND (J. F.). Confeils pour former une 
Bibliotheque, ou Catalogue de tous les bons 
Ouvrages qui peuvent entrer dans une Biblio- 
theque Chretienne. 3 Vols. 8°. Lyons. 1833-43. 

Santander (M. C. de la Serna). Catalogue des 
Livres de la Bibliotheque de Santander ; redige 
et mis en ordre par lui-meme ; avec des Notes 
bibliographiques et litteraires. 5 Vols. 8°. 
Bruxelles. 1803. 

The 5th Volume is a Supplement, containing a Memoir upon the 
Origin of Signatures and Marks in Typography, a Latin Preface printed 
in 1 800, upon the genuine Colleftion of Canons by St. Ifidorc of Seville, 
&c. and five large Engravings reprcfenting the paper Marks ufcd in the 
15th Century. This fuperb Colledtion is compofed, as is ftated in the 
Preface, of the bell Works in the various Departments of Learning, and is 
cfpecially rich in rare and coftly Books, among which is a very fine Copy 
of De Bry's Colleftion of Voyages. The Books are arranged like the 
Catalogue of Renouard juft noticed, under the general Divifions of Theo- 
logy, Jurifprudence, Sciences and Arts, Belles-Lettres, and Hiftory. A 



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copious general Index of Authors in the fourth Volume enhances the Value 
of the Work. It may well be called, as Dr. Cogfwell exprefles it, "a 
bibliographical Catalogue with copious Notes." The Paper and Typo- 
graphy are unfortunately not in keeping with the literary Merits of the 
Work. Santander's Library was fold at Auftion in 1 809. 



XL Bibliography of particular Sciences 
and Branches of Literature^ or Special 
Biblio graph ies . 

THE Didtionaries and Catalogues applicable 
to PARTICULAR Branches of Knowledge, 
and compriling Works published on the 
Subjed:s difcuiTed, would of themfelves conftitute a 
Library. We can only Notice, in Addition to fuch 
as have already been confidered under previous 
Heads, a few of the more important, and with 
which we are more efpecially familiar. 

Agassiz (Louis). Bibliographia Zoologias et Geolo- 
gias. General Catalogue of all Books, Trad:s, 
and Memoirs on Zoology and Geology. Cor- 
re(5led, enlarged, and edited by H. E. Strickland. 
3 Vols. 8°. London. 1848-52. 

Atkinson (James). Medical Bibliography. A 
and B. 8°. London, 1834. 

A very amujing as well as inftruftive Book, dedicated to all idle Students 
in Great Britain. "I only wifh to apprize the Reader, that if he choofe 
to read my Non-fenfe, with his Eyes and Fingers open, he muft be a 
greater Fool, if poffible than the Author who wrote it." — ExtraSl from 
the Preface. 



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Ayala (M. d'). Bibliografia Militare Italiana. 
8°. Torino. 1854. pp.450. 

Backer (Auguftin et Alois de). Bibliotheque des 
Ecrivains de la Compagnie de Jefus, ou Notices 
bibliographiques; i'' de tous les Ouvrages publics 
par les Membres de la Compagnie de Jefus, depuis 
la Fondation de I'Ordre jufqu'a nos Jours ; 2^ 
des Apologies, des Controverfes religeufes, des 
Critiques litteraires et fcientifiques fufcitees a 
leur Sujet. 4 Vols. Royal 8°. Liege. 1833-56. 

This elaborate Work is to confift, according to the Preface, of 5 or 6 
Volumes of 800 Pages, double Columns. Each Volume is arranged in 
alphabetical Order and is complete in itfelf. 

Bastiat (F.). Didiionnaire de TEconomie Poli- 
tique. 2 Vols. 8°. Paris. 1855. 

Containing the general Principles of Political Economy, with a Biblio- 
graphy of the Science, by Baftiat, Baudrillart, Blaifc, Blanqui, Block, 
and many others, publifhed under the Direction of Coquelin and Guil- 
laumin. 

BeRARD (A. S. L.j. EiTai bibliographique fur les 
Editions des Elzevirs les plus precieufes et les plus 
recherchees. 8°. Paris. 1822. 

Preceded by an Account of the moft celebrated Printers. 

Blakey (R.). Angling Literature of all Nations. 
12°, London. 1855. pp.341. 

Blanqui (M.). Hiftoire de I'Economie Politique 
en Europe. 2^ Edition. 2 Vols. 8°. Paris. 1 842. 

In the fecond Volume may be found the Bibliography of the principal 
Works on Political Economy. 



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Blaze (C). Bibliographic Muiicale de la France 
et de I'Etranger. 8°. Paris. 1822. 

A defcriptive Account of all the Treatifes and Works on vocal and 
inftrumental Mufick publifhed in Europe down to 1822. 

Boucher de la Richarderie (G.). Bibliotheque 
Univerfelle des Voyages. 6 Vols. 8°. Paris. 
1808. 

A claffiiied Account of all Voyages, ancient and modern, in diiFerent 
Parts of the World, with Extrafts from the moft important, arranged in 
chronological Order according to the different Countries, and accompanied 
with a full Index of Names and Authors. 

Bridgman (R. W.). Short View of Legal Biblio- 
graphy, with critical Obfervations on Law 
Writers. 8°. London. 1807. 

Callisen (A. C. P.). Medicinifches Schriftfteller- 
Lexicon. 33 Vols. 12°. Copenhagen. 1830-45. 

Camus (A. G.). Lettres fur la Profeffion d'Avocat ; 
un Recueil de Pieces concernant I'Exercice de 
cette Profeffion, et Bibliotheque choifie des 
Livres de Droit. 5th Edition, 2 Vols. 8°. Paris. 

1832. 

An excellent Work on Jurifprudence and its Bibliography, revifed and 
enlarged by Dupin. It was firft pubhflied in 1772 in a fmall duodecimo 
Form. 

Clarke (A. & J. B. B.). A concife View of the 
Succeffion of Sacred Literature, in a chronolo- 
gical Arrangement of Authors and their Works, 
from the Invention of alphabetical Characters to 
1445. 2 Vols. 8°. London. 1830-2. 
Q 



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CoGGESHALL (W. F.). The Newfpaper Record, 
containing a complete Lift of Newspapers, &c. 
in the United States, Canada and Great Britain ; 
with a Sketch of the Origin of Printing. 8°. 
Philadelphia. 1856. pp. 194. 

Darling (James). Cyclopedia Bibliographica; a 
Library Manual of Theological and General 
Literature, and Guide to Books for Authors, 
Preachers, Students and Literary Men, analytical, 
bibliographical and biographical. 2 Vols. Imp. 
8°. London. 1854. 

Clofcly printed Pages, double Columns and imall Type. The Work 
is chiefly theological, comprifing ancient and modern Authors of Note in 
Theology, Ecclefiallical Hiftory, Moral Philofophy, and the various 
Departments conncftcd therewith, including a Selcdion in moft Branches 
of Literature, with fhort biographical and bibliographical Notices. In 
colledive Works the Contents of each Volume are minutely dcfcribed, 
and in Volumes of Sermons the Texts are given. 

Decanver (H. C). Catalogue of Works in 
Refutation of Methodifm, from its Origin in 
1729 to the prefent Time. Large Paper. Thin 
8°. Philadelphia. 1846. 

De Morgan (Auguftus). Notices of Arithmetical 
Books and Authors. Poft 8^^. London. 1 847. 

DiiYANDER (Jonas). Catalogus Bibliothecas Hifto- 
rico-Naturalis Jofephi Banks. 5 Vols. 8°. Lon- 
don. 1796-1800. 

This, although the Title feems to promifc only the Catalogue of a pri- 
vate Library, is allowed to furnifh the moft complete and heft arranged 
'View of Books in Natural Hiftory ever publiflied in any Country. The 
Contents are, Vol. L General Writers; Vol. IL Zoology; \'ol. U\. 



i 



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Botany ; Vol. IV. Mineralogy ; Vol V. Supplement. The Books dc- 
Icribed now form a Part of the Britifh Mufeum. 

DuPARCG (E. de la Barre). Des Sources Biblio- 
graphiques Militaires. 8°. Paris. 1856. 

DupiN (A. M. J. J.). Lettres fur la Profeffion 
d'Avocat, ou Bibliotheque choifie des Livres de 
Droit. (See Camus, Page 97.) 

DupiN (A. M. J, J.). Manuel du Droit Public 
Eccleliaftique Franfais. 12°. Paris, 1844. 

Containing at the End a Chronology of the Popes and Kings of France, 
and a Bibliotheque Choifie, or Lift of the moft important Works upon 
Ecclefiaftical Hiftory and Canon Law. pp. 466. 

DupiN (A. M. J. J.). Manuel des Etudians en 
Droit et des jeunes Avocats ; Recueil d'Opufcules 
de Jurifprudence. 12°. Paris. 1851. pp.876. 

Containing bibliographical Notices of the beft Works upon Law ; Hif- 
tory of Law, Roman, and French; Aphorifms of Bacon; Biographies 
of Magiftrates, &c. &c. 

DuPLESSis (C). Bibliographie Paremiologique, 
fuivie d'un Appendice. (Bibliography of Pro- 
verbs.) 8°. Paris. 1847. 

Ellis (Henry). Catalogue of Books on Angling. 
8°. London. 181 1. 

Elmes (James). General and Bibliographical 
Didiionary of the Fine Arts. 8°. London. 1826. 

Forbes (John). Manual of Seled Medical BibHo- 
graphy. Royal 8"^. London. 1835. 

GoDDe (M. J.). Catalogue raifonne d'une Col- 



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lediion de Livres,etc. relatifs aux Arts de Peinture, 
Sculpture. 8°. Paris. 1850. 

GRassE (J. G. T.) Bibliotheca Magica et Pneu- 
matica. 8°. Leipzig. 1843. 

Horn E (T. H. ) . Manual of Biblical Bibliography ; 
compriling a Catalogue methodically arranged, 
of the principal Editions and Revilions of the 
Holy Scriptures ; together with Notices of the 
principal Philologers, Critics, &c. 2^ Edition. 
8°. London. 1846. 

HoYER (Dr. J. G. von). Literatur der Kriegf- 
wifTenfchaften und Kriegfgefchichte. 1 2°. Berlin. 

1832-40. 

A Work of 661 Pages, with a Supplement of aoo Pages, from 1 83 i to 
1840. 

La Lande (J. de). Bibliographic Aftronomique 
avec I'LIiftoire de I'Aftronomie depuis 1780, 
jufqu'a 1802. 4°. Paris. 1803. pp.966. 

With a two-fold Index of Authors and Subjcfts. 

Le Long (Jacobus). Bibliotheca Sacra, feu Syllabus 
omnium fere Sacrag Scripturic Editionum ac 
Verfionum, etc. 2 Vols. Folio. Paris. 1723. 

The firfl: Edition of this Work was publifhcd in 1709. 2 Vols, oftavo. 
It contains an Account of the various Editions of the Scriptures, with full 
Indexes, &c. being an invaluable Acquifition to the biblical Scholar. 

M'CuLLOCH (J. R.). The Literature of Political 
Economy. 8°. London. 1845. 

A claflified Catalogue of felcft Publications in the different Departments 



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oF Political Economy, with hiftorical, critical, and biographical Notices, 
and a very complete double Index of Authors and Works. 

MuRHARD (F. W. A.). Bibliotheca Mathematica, 
oder Literatur der Math. Wiffenfchaft. 5 Vols. 
8°. Leipzig. 1 797- 1 805. 

Containing the Literature of Arithmedck, Geometry, and x4nalyfis, 
Mechanicks, and Opdcks. 

Orme (William). Bibliotheca Biblica; a feled: 
Lift of Books on Sacred Literature; with Notices, 
biographical, critical and bibliographical. 8°. 
Edinburgh. 1824. 

Defigned to furnifh the Means of eafy Reference to the moft ufeful Books 
in the important Department of biblical Literature. It includes a Selec- 
tion of foreign Works, and a very full Lift of Briufh Works, excluding 
in its Plan, general Theology, fyftematick, praftical, and polemical 
Divinity. x'\n arranged Index enhances the Value of the Work. Orme 
is the Author of Mem_oirs of John Owen, Life and Times of Richard 
Baxter, &c. 

Oettinger (E. M.). Bibliographic Biographique 
Univerfelle. Did:ionnaire des Ouvrages relatifs 
a I'Hiftoire de la Vie publique et privee des 
Perfonnages celebres de tous les Temps et de 
toutes les Nations, depuis le Commencement du 
Monde jufqu'anos Jours. 2 Vols. 4°. Bruxelles. 

1854. 

Percheron (A.). Bibliographic Entomologique, 
comprenant I'Lidication, i^ des Ouvrages ento- 
mologiques publics en France et a I'Etranger 
depuis les Temps les plus recules jufqu'a nos 
Jours ; 2^ des Monographies et Memoires con- 
tenus dans les Recueils, &c. 2 Vols. 8°. Paris. 

1837- 



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Ploucquet (W. G.). LiteraturaMcdica Digefta. 
4 Vols. Royal 4''. Tubingic. 1808-9. 

A moll comprehcnfive bibliographica! Catalogue of Medical Literature, 
ancient and modern. 

PoGGENDORFF (J. C). Biograpliifch-literarifches 
Handworterbuch zur Gelchichte der exad:en 
WiiTenfchaften. 8". Berlin. 1858. 

To be complete in one large odlavo Volume of about 1 200 Pages, the 
firil Number of which, extending to the Article Dirichlet, has jull ap- 
peared. It is intended as a Manual for thofe who cultivate the mathemat- 
ical and induftivc Sciences, prefenting the chief Points of Date, Life, and 
Works of Mathematicians, Aftronomers, Chemilb, Mineralogifts, Geolo- 
gifts, &c. of all Times, and of every Nation, with copious References to 
the Sources whence more detailed Information may be obtained. For 
the part ten Years the Author has been continually employed in the Com- 
pilation of this Work, in which Tafk he has been particularly aided by 
the extenfive literary and fcientifick Trcafures of the Royal Library of 
Berlin, and alfo authentick Communications from fcientifick Men of the 
prefent Day. 

Poole (W. F.). An Index of Periodical Litera- 
ture. 80. New York. 1853. 

An exceedingly ufeful Book, publiflied by C. B. Norton, being a com- 
plete Key to the Contents of fifteen hundred Volumes of ftandard Englifh 
and American Periodicals. An important Featurcof the Work is that the 
Names of anonymous Articles are given in Parenthefes, fo far as they could 
be afcertained. Periodicals, as the Author ftates in the Preface, form a 
confiderable Portion of our publick and private Libraries ; their Contents, 
however, are not available, for the Want of a Clue to the Labyrinth of 
Topicks difcufled in them. This Index furniflics the defired Clue. It 
conilitutes a handfome oftavo Volume of 800 Pages. Publiflied at $6. 
The Work is dedicated to Prof. C. C. Jewett, in Token of Appreciation 
of his Services in behalf of American Libraries and Bibhography. 



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Pritzel (G. a.). Thefaurus Llteraturse Botanic^ 
omnium Gentium inde a Rerum botanicarum 
Initiis ad noftra ufque Tempora, quindecim millia 
Operum recenfens. 4°. Lipfias. 1851. pp.547. 

A Work of extraordinary Accuracy and Fullncfs of Defcription. It 
contains an alphabetical Diftionary of Authors and their Works — a fyftem- 
atick Arrangement of the fame, and an alphabetical Index of the Names of 
Editors and other Perfons incidentally mentioned. 

Roy (C. H. a). Catalogus Bibliothecs Medicas. 
5 Vols. 8°. Amflerdam. 1830. 

A fyftematick Catalogue of Works in the European Languages on all 
Branches of Medicine, Anatomy, Pharmacy, &c. 

Sims (Richard). An Index to all the Pedigrees 
and Arms in the Heraldic Viiitations and other 
Genealogical Manufcripts in the Britifli Mufeum. 
8°. London, 1849. 

" A Book in conftant Ufe by Perfons engaged in genealogical or topo- 
graphical Studies, affording a ready Clue to the Pedigrees and Arms of 
above 50,000 of the Gentry of England, their Refidences," &c. 

Sims (Richard). A Manual for the Genealogift, 
Topographer, Antiquary, and Legal Profeffor; 
coniifling of Defcriptions of Public Records ; 
Parochial and other Regiflers ; Wills ; County 
and Family Hiflories ; Heraldic Colledlions in 
Public Libraries, etc. Royal 8°. London. 1856. 

" Since the Cornmencement of the Record Reform by the A£l of 1 838, 
feveral Books have been publifhed that are more or lefs Ufeful to the 
Student or the Antiquarian defirous of purfuing his Inquiries among the 
national Records ; but we have feen none fo ufeful as this Manual of Mr. 
Sims. The Extent of his Coup d'cDeil, indeed, goes beyond what can be 
termed Records even in the largeft Senfc. In Addition to thofe Documents 



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which the Law allows to be Records and producible in Evidence, or which 
Reafon confiders Records without Reference to their Cuftody, Mr. Sims 
refers to a Variety of illuftrati\ e Documents, Manufcripts, and publifhed 
Works, fo numerous as to baffle all Attempts at Enumeration. The Manual 
is not folely intended for hiflorical Students or literary Men, but for the 
limited though praflical Ufes of the Lawyer, the Genealogift and the like. 
It is not a mere bibliographical Account of Muniments, the Place of their 
Depofit, whether they have been printed, and when, or by whom ; it is 
a Sort of Hiftory of our publick Muniments, &c. not unfrcqucntly contain- 
ing Glimpfes of our focial Hiftory, fo far as it can be exhibited by the 
Matter itfelf." — Speflator, Q£l. 4, 1856. 

SwAiNSON (William). Taxidermy; with the Bio- 
graphy of Zoologifts, and Notices of their Works. 
12°. London. 1840. 

Part n. pp. 98-392, comprifes the Bibliography of Zoology; with 
biographical Sketches of the principal Authors, and an Index. 

Ternaux-Compans (H.). BibHotheque Afiatique 
et Africaine ; ou Catalogue des Ouvrages qui ont 
ete publics fur ces deux Continents jufqu'a ce 
Jour. 8°. Paris. 1841. 

Walcii (J, G.). Bibliotheca Theologica Seledta. 
4 Vols. 8°. Jen^. 1757-65. 

A very valuable Work, accompanied by literary Notices and a general 
Index of Authors, the Works defcribed being arranged according to Divi- 
fions or Claffl'S, 

Walcii (J. G.). Bibliotheca Patriftica litterariis 
Annotationibus inllrudla. New Edition edited 
by J. T. L. Danzius, 8°. Jenae. 1834. 

The lirft Edition was publiihcd in 1770. 

Weigel (R.). Kunftlager-Catalog. 8". Leipzig. 
1845. 



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Winer (G. B,). Handbuch der theologifchen 
Literatur hauptsachlich der proteftantifchen nebft 
kurzen biographifchen Notizen, 3d Ed. (With 
a Supplement of 175 Pages, from 1 839 to 1 842.) 
3 Vols. 8°. Leipzig. 1838-42. 

WiTZLEBEN (A. von). Deutfchland's Militar Lite- 
ratur im letzten Jahrzehent und Ueberficht der 
wichtigften Karten und Plane Central Europas. 
8°. Berlin. 1850. pp, 247. 

W0HI4 (R. von). Die Gefchichte und Literatur 
der StaatfwilTenfchaft. 2 Vols. 8°. Erlangen, 

1855-6. 

XIL Biographical DiBionaries. 

ONE of the moft ufeful as v^^ell as interefting 
Parts of a bibliographical Colledlion of 
Books, are the Catalogues of publick and 
private Libraries, including the moft important fale 
Catalogues of Bookfellers. As the Defign of this 
Work will not admit of any Details relative to 
fuch Catalogues, we refer the Inquirer to the fecond 
Volume of Home's Introdudiion to the Study of 
Bibliography, pp. 564-758, where he will find a 
large Number fully defcribed, with brief Notices 
of their Contents. The following Account of the 
biographical Di(ftionaries which are fpecjally ufeful 
to the Bibliographer, together with a Notice of the 
principal Periodicals devoted to Bibliography, muft 
clofe our Select List, already extended beyond its 
original Limits, 

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Allen (William). The American Biographical 
Didtionary. 3^ Ed. Royal 8°. Bofton. 1857. 

Truly the American Bibliographical DiSiionary, containing Notices of 
6775 American Names. The firfl Edition was pubhfhed in 1809, and 
the fecond in 1832. The venerable Author is ftill living. 

Allibone (S. a.), a Critical Di(5lionary of Eng- 
lifh Literature, and Britifh and American Authors, 
living and deceafed, from the earlieft Accounts 
to the Middle of the nineteenth Century. Con- 
taining thirty-one thoufand Biographies and 
literary Notices, with an Index of Subjedt-matter. 

This truly national Work is to be publifhcd by Mcflrs. Childs & Petcr- 
fon, Philadelphia, in one Volume, fuper-royal oftavo, 1 800 Pages, double 
Columns. About 1300 Pages, including 21,000 Authors, are already 
ftereotypcd. The firft Part, A-I, pp. 945, will be iffued in September of 
the prefent Year. The Author has labored inceflantly upon it during the 
pall five Years, bringing to the Undertaking vail Diligence and Rcfearch, 
good Tafte and Judgment, and a painflaking Love of Detail and Accuracy. 
When completed it will prove a moil welcome Aid to Bibliographers, 
Scholars and Readers generally. We fpeak thus from the Tellimony of 
Everett, Irving, Prefcott, Bancroft and other eminent American Scholars, 
and from perfonal Examination of Proofs, and Portions already ftereotypcd. 
The following Charafterifticks of the Work are gathered from a Pro- 
spectus. 

" I. It is a Biographical Dictionary of Englifli and American Authors, 
comprifmg both the living and the dead, furnifliing thofe Incidents re- 
fpedting the Perfons who have made themfelves famous in the Republick 
of Letters, which every Reader dcfires to know, and few know whereto 
find. 

" 2. It is a bibliographical Manual, giving Information as to the bcft 
Editions of Authors, the Circumilances attending their Publication, the 
Reception which they met with from the Publick, the Influence they have 
exercifed on the publick Mind, and many other intercfting Particulars, not 



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one of which the true Lover of Bot)ks,and Student of Letters, would ' wil- 
lingly let die.' 

" As a bibliographical Manual, the Index, which forms the fecond 
Portion of the Volume, will prove no fmall Addition to its Value. In this 
Index, the Subjefts of human Knowledge are divided into forty diftinft 
Glafles, and an Alphabet is allotted to each. By this Means, the Reader 
is enabled to fee at a Glance who are the principal Writers on all Subjedls, 
from Agriculture, Clafs i ft, to Voyages, Clafs -40th. 

"It is thought that this Index will contain between 40,000 and 50,000 
Names, yet no Author is mentioned whofe Works are hot noticed in the 
firft Part of the Didlionary. 

"3. It is a critical, as well as a biographical and bibliographical Dic- 
tionary. Here the Author has a great Advantage over his Predeceflbrs, 
without a Jingle Exception. Makers of Books approaching to the Char- 
after of this, are in the Habit of giving their own Opinions, or Opinions 
adopted as their own, which muft be bafed upon very partial Knowledge, 
and one therefore of little Value ; or are apt to be tinftured with Prejudice 
and party Bias, and are therefore endded to litde Confidence. But Mr. 
Allibone contents himfelf with adducing the Opinions upon various Writers 
as they come under his Notice, of Critics of great and extended Reputa- 
tion, who have earned a Claim to be heard with Refpeft, if not in all Cafes 
with entire Acquiefcence. Thefe invaluable Specimens of Cridcifm are 
quoted verbadm, and diftinguifhed by a fmaller Type, which adds gready 
to the Beauty of the Work." 

Appleton's Cyclopaedia of Biography ; embracing 
a Series of original Memoirs of the moft diftin- 
guifhed Perfons of all Times. Revifed American 
Edition, edited by Francis L. Hawks, D. D. 
LL. D. Royal 8°. New York. 1856. pp.1058. 

A very handfome Reprint of the Englifti Edidon, which was edited by 
EUhu Rich. The original Memoirs, the Authorfhip of which is indicated 
by Inidals, were written for this Work by Sir Archibald Alifon, Wm. 
Baird, Sir David Brewfter, James Bryce, J. H. Burton, Prof. Creafy, 
Prof. Eadie, Prof. Fergufon, Prof. Gordon, James Hedderwick, J. A. 



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Heraud, Robert Jamiefon, Charles Knight, James Manfon, J. M*- 
Connechy, Prof. Nichol, Elihu Rich, Prof. Spalding, Prof. Thomfon, 
R. N. Wornum. The Articles fupplicd in this American Edition arc 
from different Hands, although the Authorlhip is not indicated, as in the 
Englifh Original, by Initials. The numerous Illuftrations of the Birth- 
places, Monuments, or other Memorials of departed Greatnefs with which 
the Volume is enlivened, add much to the Value of the Work. 

BioGRAPHiE Univerfelle, ancienne et moderne. 
Ouvrage entierement neuf, redige par une Societe 
de Gens de Lettres et de Savants. 52 Vols. 8°. 
Paris. 181 1-28. 

By univerfal Confent, the befl and moft extenfivc Work of the Kind 
ever produced in any Language. It might properly be called the Biogra- 
phic et Bibliographie Univerfelle, fo full and accurate are its Notices of 
the Works of Authors. A Supplement has been commenced which is 
ftill in Progrefs. The 83*^ Volume (numbering from the laft Volume of 
the Original Work), was publiihed in 1855, containing the Names Stack 
to TeyJJieu. 

" The eminent Names appended to a large Proportion of the Articles 
contained in the fifty-two Volumes of the Biographie Universelle, are 
Vouchers for the Ability and Erudition it difplays. I muft fpcak rcfpcft- 
fully of a Work to which I owe fo much, and without which, probably, 
I fhould never have undertaken the prefent." — HallanCs Lit. Hift. 

Blake (J. L.). A Biographical Didionary; 
compriling a Summary Account of the moft 
diftinguifhed Perfons of all Ages, Nations and 
Profeffions. New and revifed Edition. Royal 8°. 
Philadelphia. 1857. pp. 1366. 

Containing about 12,500 different Articles, 2000 of which arc of 
American Biography. The firft Edition was publiflicd in 1836, of 
which there have been 12 IfTues, the laft one in 1854. The Number of 
new Articles introduced into this prefent Edition is about 2400. The 
Author, a Clergyman, and an early Graduate of Brown Univerfity, re- 
cently died at his Refidencc in Orange, New Jerfey. 



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Chalmers (Alexander). The General Biograph- 
ical Didionary. 32 Vols. 8°. London. 1 812-17. 

Contains Notices of about 9000 Names. The Author, fays Lowndes, 
has taken more than common Pains in giving accurate Lifts of the Works 
of fuch as were Authors, with the Dates of the beft Editions, &c. He 
inferts, fays Hallam, the moft infignificant Names, and quotes the moft 
wretched Authorities; neverthelefs we cannot deny the Value of his Dic- 
tionary. 

Chambers (Robert). A Biographical Dictionary 
of Eminent Scotfmen. 4 Vols. Imp. 8°. Glafgow. 

1835- 

An expenfive Work, embelhfhed with many fplendid and authentick 
Portraits. 

Gorton (John). A General Biographical Dicftion- 
ary. New Edition, with a Supplement, com- 
pleting the Work to the prefent Time. 4 Vols. 
Thick 8°. London. 1851. 

Very accurate and ufeful, bringing an immenfe Amount of Information 
within a fmall Compafs. 

JoECHER (C. G.). Allgemeines Gelehrten Lexi- 
con, darinne die Gelehrten aller Stande welche 
vom Anfange der Welt bis auf jetzige Zeit. 4 
Vols. 4°. Leipzig. 1750-51. 

JoECHER (C. G.). Fortfetzung und Erganzung 
von J. C. Adelung. 2 Vols. 4°. Leipzig. 

1784-87. 

JoECHER (C. G.). Weiter fortgefetz von H, W. 
Rotermund. 4 Vols. 4°. Bremen. 18 10-19. 

This is a biographical Didionary of learned Men and Women, com- 



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prifing, in brief Articles, an immcnfc Number of Names. The Continua- 
tion by the celebrated Adelung, is incomplete, having reached only to the 
Letter J. It has been ftill further continued by Rotermund. Each of 
the ten Volumes above defcribed, contains over a thoufand Pages in double 
Columns. 

NouvELLE Biographic Generale depuis les Temps 
les plus recules jufqu'a nos Jours. 8°. Paris. 
Vols. 1-23. (To " Hennequin.") 

This Work, publifhed by Didot under the Dircflion of Dr. Hoefer, is 
to be complete in 45 compaft Volumes, one Half of which have already 
appeared. It is one of the lateft Productions of this Kind, and is of fpecial 
Value as a bibliographical Diflionary, giving the Titles of the various 
Authors whofe Lives are contained therein, with Dates, Size, Place of 
Publication, &c. &c. 

Rose (H. J.). A New General Biographical Dic- 
tionary. 12. Vols. 8°. London. 1848. 

The beft general bibliographical Didlionary extant in Englifli. It 
contains Notices of 20,700 Names, " the moft remarkable of which are 
treated at a Length," as ftated in the Preface, " fully commenfuratc with 
their Importance." 

Smith (William). Dictionary of Greek and Roman 
Biography and Mythology ; edited by William 
Smith, LL. D. Illuftrated by numerous Wood 
Engravings. 3 Vols. Thick royal 8°. London. 
1846-9. 

The Contributors to this invaluable Work are among the moft diftin- 
guifhed European Writers and Scholars. It includes the Names of all 
Perfons of any Importance which occur in the Greek and Roman Writers 
down to the Year 1453. The bibliographical Notices arc very full and 
accurate. A fecond Edition abridged, in one royal oftavo Volume, was 
publifhed in 1851. 



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XIII. Bibliographical Periodicals. 

THE following are the principal Periodicals 
which are devoted exclufively to Bibliogra- 
phy and Library Economy. Several of 
them, it will be feen, have a high literary Charad:er, 
while others are important chiefly for their Lifts and 
Notices of new Books. 

Allgemeine Bibliographie. Monatliches Ver- 
zeichnifs der wichtigern neuen Erfcheinungen der 
deutfchen und auflandifchen Literatur. OBavo. 
Leipzig. 

An excellent monthly Periodical commenced in 1856; edited by Paul 
Tromel. The firfl; Volunie has a full alphabetical Index of 40 Pages, 
which adds greatly to the Value of the Work as a Source of bibliograph- 
ical Information upon the moft important Publications of the Day. It 
embraces Books in all Languages, American and Aliatick, as well as Euro- 
pean. 

American Publilhers' Circular and Literary 
Gazette, ^arto. New York. 

A weekly Journal, conduced by Charles R. Rode, under the Direftion 
of the New York Book-Publifhers' AlTociation. It contains Extradls 
from new Books, literary Intelligence, Lifts of Books publifhed from 
Month to Month, Announcements, Advertifements, &c. being fimilar to the 
Publifliers' Circular ifflied by Sampfon Low & Son, of London. It was 
commenced in 1855. An American Periodical rrjore ftriftly literary and 
bibhographical in its Charafter is a Defideratum. Such a Journal, fome- 
what fimilar to the earher Numbers of Norton's Literary Gazette, con- 
taining Accounts of Libraries with Illuftrations,Treatifcs upon Bibliography, 
Titles of new Books publifhed from Month to Month, Contents of Period- 
icals, critical Notices of new Works like thofe in the Athenau7n, Notices 
of Works upon Bibliography like thofe in Atixeiger or Serapeum, &c. &c. 



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would undoubtedly be well fuftained in the Hands of an cnterprifing Pub- 
lillier. 

Athen^um Journal of Englifh and Foreign Lite- 
rature, Science and Fine Arts, ^larto. London. 

An important weekly Periodical publiflied by J. Francis. It was com- 
menced in 1828. The bound Volumes arc accompanied by good Indexes, 
and are regarded as indifpenfable to the Student in Englifh Bibliography, 
although the Work, as its Title indicates, is devoted to Literature, Science, 
and the Fine Arts. Reviews and critical Notices of New Books, both 
Englifh and Foreign, occupy a large Part of each Number. The Athe- 
naeum contains numerous Announcements and Advertifemcnts, moftly of 
Book-Publifhers in London and Vicinity. 

Bent's Monthly Literary Advertifer, Regifter of 
Books, Engravings, &c. Publiflied on the tenth 
of each Month. Annual Subfcription, 8s, in- 
cluding the alphabetical Catalogue. ^arto. 
London. 

Eftablifhed in the Year 1802. 

BiBLiOGRAPHiE dc la France ; ou Journal general 
de rimprimerie et de la Librarie. 05iavo. Paris. 

" Cette derniere Suite, redigee par M. Beuchot, eft remarkable par fon 
Exadlitude. Malheureufement on n'y annonce que les Ouvrages qui ont 
ete depofes a la Diredlion de la Librairie." — Brunei. It is a weekly 
Periodical, commenced in 1 8 1 1 . The firft Scries, called "Journal Typo- 
graphique, was commenced by Roux in 1797. This Work is noticed in 
its proper Place, under Scftion. IX. See Page 7 1 . 

Bulletin du Bibliophile, petite Revue d'anciens 
Livres, contenant des Notices bibliographiques, 
philologiques et litteraires, par divers Auteurs, 
fous la Direction de Nodier, Paris, Duplefljs, etc, 
05iavo, Paris, 



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A monthly Periodical commenced in 1836, and now pubJifhed by J. 
Techener. Its copious bibliographical and literary Notices of rare, curi- 
ous and important Books have given it great Succefs, it having reached its 
twenty-third Year. 

Bulletin da Bibliophile Beige. O^avo. Bruxelles. 

"Bruflels is a Place of great Intereft for Bibliography. Its Contribu- 
tions to bibliographical Knowledge in the Bibliophile Beige, and the Annuaire 
de la Bibliotheque Royale, from the Pen of Baron de ReifFenberg, the 
learned Confervateur of the latter, are among the moft valuable ever 
made." — Cog/well, 1851. 

This Bulletin is at prefent publifhed by F. Heuffher, under the Direftion 
of Auguftus Scheler, Librarian to the King. It was commenced in 1845. 
The firft Series, 9 Volumes, has an Index prepared by Scheler, and pub- 
lifhed in 1855, in oneoftavo Volume. 

Cronaca. Giornale di Scienze, Lettere, Arti, 
Economia, Induftria con BoUetino bibliografico 
pubblicato da Ignazio Cantu. OSiavo. Milan. 

Commenced in 1855, and pubhfhed on the i ft and 15th of every 
Month. Each Number has at the End, a bibliographical Bulletin of 
Italian Publications for the Ufe of Bookfellers, Librarians, &c. 

Neuer Anzeiger fUr Bibliographie und Bibliothek- 
wilTenfchaft. Heraufgegeben von Dr. Julius 
Petzholdt. OBavo. Drefden. 

Publifhed monthly. This highly ufeful Periodical, as its Tide indicates, 
is ftriftly bibliographical in its Charafter, containing Notices of Works 
upon Diplomaticks, Engraving, Printing, Libraries, Library Economy, 
Catalogues of publick and private Libraries, Audlion Sale Catalogues, &c. 
It was commenced in 1840. The bound Volumes have copious clalTified 
and alphabetical Indexes. Dr. Petzhold, the Editor, is Librarian to the 
King of Saxony, and the Author of feveral very important Works upon 
Libraries and Library Economy. 



PuBLiSHEUs' Circular, and General Record of Britlfli 
and Foreign Literature ; containing a complete 
alphabetical Lift of all new Works publifhed in 
Great Britain, and of every Work of Intereft 
publiflied abroad. OBavo. London. 

Commenced in 1837. It is piiblifhed on the ifl: and 15th of every 
Month, by Sampfon Low and Son. For the Title in full, fee Sedlion IX, 
Page 68. It is not literary in its Charafter, confifting chiefly of Lifts and 
Advcrtifements. The bound Volumes are deficient in Indexes. 

Serapeum. Zeitfchrift fiir die Bibliothekwiflen- 
fchaft, Handfchriftenkunde und akere Literatur. 
Odtavo. Leipzig. 

Publifhed on the ill: and 15th of each Month. It is fimilar to Pctz- 
holdt's Anxeiger already defcribed, except that it devotes more Space to 
Ancient Literature and the Hillory and Statifticks of Libraries, and con- 
tains occafional Plates or Illuftrations. The Volume for 1 846, contains 
the fuUeft and moft correft Account of the Libraries of America, from 
the Pen of the late Hermann E. Ludewig, then a Refident of New York, 
that had appeared previous to the Publication of Profeflbr Jewett's Work 
in 1850. The Serapeum was commenced in 1840. It is edited by 
Dr. Robert Naumann, who is affiftcd in his Duties by an Aflbciation of 
Librarians and literary Friends. 



PART SECOND. 



LIBRARIES 



" But is there to be no End to this Piirchafe of Books ? 
Oh yes ; and let us fee when it is. When there have been 
redeemed from Time all the valuable intelledual Bcquclls 
of former Ages ; when there has been garnered up all that 
preceding Generations had amaflcd as a facred and im- 
perifhable Inheritance, there will then remain no Duty but 
to colleft what the Age produces. And when literary 
Ambition fhall ceafe to be excited; when Genius is no 
longer bellowed by the Munificence of Heaven ; when 
Induftry no longer collefts new Fads refpcfting Man and 
Nature; when the forming Hand ceafes to reproduce; when 
the Streams of human Intellect no longer flow ; when the 
Springs of Intelligence and Thought arc all dried up ; when 
the Regions of Science and of Mind flecp in univcrfal 
Lethargy, — then it will be Time to give over buying 
Books." 




LIBRARIES 




I HE following Notices of Publick 
Libraries make no Claims to Ori- 
ginality, but limply to fet forth 
clearly and connecfledly fuch Fails 
in regard to their Origin, Progrefs, 
and prefent Condition, as may not otherwife be 
eafily acceffible to the Public ; Compilations have 
therefore been made, and free Extradls taken from 
the following Works, in Addition to fuch as are 
alluded to in the Notices themfelves, viz : 

Act of Incorporation and By-Laws of the Truftees 
of the Aftor Library ; with the Annual Reports 
of the fame. 1850-57. 

BiBLioTHECA Sacra, VoL VII. January and April 
Numbers. 8°. Andover. 1850. 



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• British Mufeum; New Reading Room and Libra- 

ries. With a Plan. pp. i6. 1 2'^ London. 1857. 

• Catalogues of the New York State Library. 

3 Vols. 80. Albany. 1856. 

• DiBDiN (T. F.). Bibliographical Antiquarian and 

Pidturefque Tour in France and Germany. 2^ 
Ed. 3 Vols. 8°. London. 1829. 

• Encyclopedia Britannica. New Edition ; Article 

Libraries. 

• Jewett (Prof. C. C). Notices of Public Libra- 

ries in the United States. 8°. Walhington. 1851. 

Jewett (Prof C. C). Hiftory of the Library of 

Brown Univerfity. pp.21. 8°. Providence. 1843. 

• Norton's Literary Almanac, Regifler and Gazette. 

3 Vols. 12°. New York. 1852-4. 

■ Peirce (Benjamin). Hiitory of Harvard Univerfity. 

8°. Cambridge. 1833. 
' QuiNCY (Jofiah). Hilliory of Harvard Univerfity. 
2 Vols. 8°. Cambridge, 1840. 

■ Sims (Richard). Handbook to the Library of the 

Britifh Mufeum. 12°. London. 1854. 
United States Magazine. Vol. IL 0(5tober 
Number. 4°. Philadelphia. 1855. 




LIBRARY OF HARVARD UNIVERSITY. 

75,500 Vols. 

THE Colledlion of Books belonging to 
Harvard Univerfity, in Cambridge," Maffa- 
chufetts,has long been regarded as the largeft, 
and until within comparatively a recent Period, the 



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mofl valuable one in the United States. It confifts 
of 1 1 6,000 Volumes, which are diftributed in four 
Departments, viz : Theological, Medical, Law, and 
Publick. The Theological Library is in Divin- 
ity Hall. Perfons entitled to its Privileges muft be 
connected with the Divinity School. Number of 
Books about 8,700. They confift of feledl Works, 
principally in modern Theology, with fome of the 
early Fathers. The Medical Library is in the 
Medical College in Bofton, having been placed there 
for the Convenience of Students attending the Medi- 
cal Lectures. Numberof Books about 2,000. The 
LAwLiBRARY,delignedfor the Officers and Students 
of the Law School, is in Dane Hall. Numberof 
Books about 14,000. They confift of the principal 
Works in Englifh and American Law, and in the 
Civil Law, together with important Works by 
Writers in France, Germany, and Spain, conftituting 
one of the largeft and choiceft Collediions in this 
Department of Learning, in the Country. The 
Publick or College Library is in Gore Hall, and 
is for the common Ufe of the whole Univerlity. 
Number of Books 75,500, of which 1,000 belong 
to the Boylfton Medical Library, in immediate Con- 
ned:ion with it. This Enumeration does not include 
the unbound Pamphlets, of which there are upwards 
of 30,000. To the foregoing fhould be added the 
Society Libraries of the Students, which contain 
1 2,000 Volumes, making a grand Total of 1 28,000. 
This noble Colle6lion was begun 94 Years ago. 
On the 24th of January, 1764, in a flormy winter's 



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Night during the College Vacation, Harvard Hall, 
containing the Library of about 6,000 Volumes, the 
philofophical Apparatus, and all the little Collections 
of Objecfls of Intereft: belonging to the College, was 
deftroyed by Fire. "Thus periflied," fays Elliot 
in his Sketch of Harvard College, " the valuable 
Books given by John Harvard, Sir Kenelm Digby, 
Sir John Maynard, Dr. Lightfoot, Dr. Gale, Bifhop 
Berkeley, and other diflinguiflied Benefactors ; the 
Books and Pamphlets connected with the early 
Hiilory of New England, the precious, though 
fcanty Accumulations of a hundred and twenty-fix 
Years — a Lofs which in thofe Days muft have 
feemed appalling, and which the Hiftorian, the 
Antiquary, and the Bibliographer can never ceafe 
to deplore." 

The State Legiflature was then in Seffion. In- 
deed, at the Time of the Calaraity, Harvard Hall 
was occupied by them in confequence of the Alarm 
excited by the Exiftence of the Small Pox in Bofton. 
At the Inftigation of Gov. Bernard, they immedi- 
ately appropriated £2,000 to ered; a new Building 
in Place of that which had been deftroyed. A 
general Subfcription was made for the fame Purpofe 
in the Towns and Counties of the State, amounting 
to £878. 1 6s. 9d. A generous Interell in this 
Objed: was alfo fhown by many Perfons in the 
parent Country, one of whom, Thomas Hollis, 
fubfcribed for the new Building £200. The 
Friends of the Inflitution manifefted not lefs Zeal 
and Liberality in fupplying the new Hall with 
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Books. The General AiTembly of New Hampfhire 
gave Books to the Value of .£300 Sterling. The 
Society for Propagating the Gofpel in New England 
and adjacent Parts, gave £200 Sterling, and the 
Society for Propagating the Gofpel in foreign Parts 
£100 for the Library. 

In 1790, the Library had increafed to 12,000 
Volumes; in 1830, to 30,000. It is almoft entirely 
the Fruit of individual Munificence, having had to 
depend for its Supply even to the prefent Day, with 
the Exception of the Income of the Hollis and 
Shapleigh Fund of $6,000, upon the Liberality of 
private Contributors. During the Year ending 
July 1857, there were thus added to the Library, 
including the fplendid Collection of Engravings and 
Works of Art bequeathed by the late Hon. F. C. 
Gray, and the magnificent Donation of Books in 
the claffical and oriental Languages, bequeathed by 
the late Dr. H. W. Wales, more than 4000 Volumes. 
Notwithftanding the Books in the Library are thus 
multiplied, the Committee in their laft Annual 
Report complain of the Want of a fuitable perma- 
nent Fund, ftating that the true Wants of the 
Library can only be fupplied by a fteady and fyftem- 
atick Expenditure of Money in the Procurement 
of Works the moft needed, and in which it may be 
moft deficient. 

Confpicuous among the early Benefactors of the 
Library ftands the Name of Thomas Hollis, a 
wealthy Baptift of London, whofe enlarged Views 
of Chriftianity, and " Deeds of Peace," entitle him 



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to the lafting Refped: and Gratitude of Mankind. 
The Books, which he, and his Brothers and De- 
fcendants, placed upon the Library Shelves, were 
very numerous, admirably well chofen, many of 
them, containing curious and interefting Notes in 
their own Hand-writing, and elegantly bound. At 
the Deceafe of Thomas Hollis 3^, in 1774, he be- 
queathed to the College a Sum of Money, which 
now conflitutes one Half of the Library Fund to 
which Allulion has already been made. In a 
Note in Giggeius's Thefaurus Linguae Arabics, he 
fays : " This is a fine Copy of a very fcarce Work. 
T. H. has been particularly Induftrious in colled:ing 
Grammars and Lexicons of the oriental Root Lan- 
guages, to fend to Harvard College, in Hopes of 
forming by that Means, affifted by the Energy of 
the Leaders, always beneficent, a few prime Scholars^ 
Honours to their Country, and Lights to Mankind," 
&c. The Gifts to the Library and College of Thomas 
Hollis I ft, including thofe of his Brothers, John 
and Nathaniel, and Thomas Hollis, the Son of the 
latter, amounted to fix thoufand Pounds, Currency of 
MafTachufetts, which, fays Quincy in his Hiftory 
of the Univerfity, " confidering the Value of Money 
at that Period, and the difinterefted Spirit by which 
their Charities were prompted, conftitutes one of 
the moft remarkable Inftances of continued Benevo- 
lence upon Record." Mr. Benj. Peirce, for many 
Years Librarian of the Inftitution, in his Hiftory of 
the Library, notices Thomas Hollis 3d, particularly, 
" not only on Account of his general Claims to 



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Refped: and Admiration, but becaufe, from the 
Amount and Quality of his Benefactions, and from 
the Period at which they were received, he may 
julfly be confidered as the Father of Harvard Col- 
lege Library." Thomas Brand Hollis, and other 
Branches or Defcendants of the Family, continued 
from Time to Time to fend liberal Donations to 
the Library and College. 

In the new Harvard Hall, ere(fled immediately 
on the Site of the old one, the Publick Library was 
kept till July, i 841, when the Books were removed 
to Gore Hall, a fpacious and impofmg Edifice, built 
for its exclufive Accommodation by Means of Funds 
bequeathed to the College by the Hon. Chriftopher 
Gore. This Building prefents a pure and chafle 
Specimen of the Gothick Style of the fourteenth 
Century, but the hard Sienite or Quincy Granite, 
ufed in its Conftrudiion, made it neceffary to omit 
the elaborate Ornaments with which this Style is 
ufually wrought. It is in the Form of a Latin 
Crofs ; the Length of the Body being 140 Feet, 
and acrofs the Tranfepts 8 1 2 Feet. The main 
Entrances are flanked by od:agonal Towers, 83 
Feet high, furmounted by lofty mitered Pinnacles, 
fomewhat like thofe of King's College Chapel, at 
Cambridge, England. The outer Walls are of 
rough Stone, laid in regular Courlbs, with ham- 
mered ftone Buttrefles, Towers, Pinnacles, and 
Drip-ftones. The inner Walls and Columns are 
of Brick, fluccoed. The main Floor is alfo of 
Brick, refting on brick Arches, filled above to a 
Level, and covered with hard-pine Boards. The 



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Roof and Gallery are fupported by wrought iron 
Rafters, and the Partitions are ftrengthened by 
concealed iron Columns. The interior of the Body 
of the Building forms a beautiful Hall, 1 12 Feet 
long and 35 Feet high, with a vaulted and ribbed 
Ceiling, fpringing from two Ranges of ribbed Co- 
lumns. The Spaces between the Columns are 
divided by Partitions into Stalls or Alcoves for 
Books, having a light Gallery above, protected by 
an ornamented iron Baluftrade. One of the Tran- 
fepts is ufed as a Reading-room ; the other is 
divided into three Apartments for Books. This 
Hall, in the Conftrud:ion of which great Caution 
was ufed to guard againft Injury by Fire, is heated 
by Steam, which is conveyed from a Boiler in the 
Bafement, through iron Pipes to four Stacks of 
perpendicular copper Pipes, arranged like Screens 
at the Sides of the central Area. An ingenious felf- 
adiing Contrivance regulates the Draft, fo as to 
check or increafe the Generation of the Steam. 
The whole Coft, including the heating Apparatus, 
was little fliort of $75,000. 

The Publick Library of the Univeriity, for which 
alone, as before Ifated, this Hall is deligned (the Li- 
braries of the Theological, Medical, and Law Schools 
being kept in feparate Buildings), contains Books 
in all Branches of Learning. Thefe are arranged 
according to Subjects into the four grand Divilions 
of Literature, Hiftory, Theology, and Science, with 
numerous Subdivilions. The firfb Clarification of 
the Books was made in 1822, by Jofeph G. Cogf- 



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well, Efq., now the learned Superintendent of the 
Aftor Library ; and it has been continued ever fince, 
upon eflentially the fame Plan. 

The Divifion of Theology contains the four great 
Polyglots, the Complutenlian, Antwerp, French 
and Englifh ; a very valuable CoUedtion of the 
Writings of the Fathers of the Church ; a com- 
plete Apparatus for the critical Study of the Script- 
ures and ecclefiaftical Hiftory, and a Body of the 
mifcellaneous Writings of all the beft modern 
Divines. The fcientifick Divifion is rich in Works 
on the exad: and natural Sciences ; and the Library 
is well fupplied in the Departments of Philofophy, 
Ethics, ancient and modern Literature, Hiftory, 
Topography, and Antiquities. Voluminous and 
expenfive Works, which are rarely met with, except 
in large publick Libraries, here have their Place. 
Nowhere elfe in the United States will be found fo 
large a Colleftion of the Journals and Reports of 
the Englifh Parliament ; and the Department of 
American Hiftory is unrivalled, at leaft in this 
Country. The Collecflion of Maps, the Titles of 
which alone fill a printed Volume of two hundred 
and twenty-four Pages, is believed to be altogether 
unique. The Library contains, alfo, a few valua- 
ble and interefling Manufcripts ; one of which, a 
Fragment of the Gofpels of Matthew and John, in 
the Greek uncial Chara(fter on Parchment, is more 
than one thoufand Years old, and is doubtlefs the 
only Specimen of this Kind and Age on this Con- 
tinent. 



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The Benefits conferred by this Library, are ren- 
dered, by the LiberaHty of its Regulations, as Ex- 
tenlive as is coniiftent with the Safety of the Property. 
Books are borrowed and returned, in term Time, 
from 2 to 4 o' Clock on Mondays, Tuefdays, 
Wednefdays and Thurfdays, and in Vacations from 
9 to I o'clock on Mondays. Admittance and 
Permiffion to confult the Books are afforded gratu- 
itoufly to all Vilitors. Perfons having a temporary 
Refidence near the Univerfity, for the Purpofes of 
Study, are permitted to borrow Books without 
Charge ; while the Library is one of the principal 
Attradiions to an increafing Number of Students, 
who refort to this celebrated Univerfity for an 
Education. 

John L. Sjbley, Librarian. 



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YALE COLLEGE LIBRARY. 

35,000 Vols. 

THIS Library is deligned for the Ufe of the 
feveral Facukies of tlie College, Students 
conned:ed with the Theological, Law, 
Medical and Philofophical Departments, and the 
Members of the Senior and Junior Clalfes in the 
Academical Department. The whole Number of 
Books belonging to it, exclufive of about 5000 
Pamphlets, is 35,000. Each of the profeilional 
Schools has connedled with it a feparate Library, 
making a Summary of 5000 additional V^olumes. 
In the Library of the Linonian Society, there are 



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12,500 Volumes; of the Brothers in Unity, 12,500; 
making a Total of 60,000 Volumes. 

The following Account of the Origin and Pro- 
grefs of the Library is taken mainly from Norton's 
Literary Regifter for 1853. The necelTary Changes 
and Additions have been made, bringing it down 
to the prefent Time. 

In the Year 1700, ten of the principal Clergy- 
men of the Colony of Conne(5licut met at New 
Haven, and formed themfelves into a Body of 
Truftees for the Purpofe of eftablifhing a College 
in the Colony. At the next Meeting, which was 
at Rranford, each one prefented to the Body a 
Number of Books, and laid them on the Table 
with thefe Words : " / give thefe Books for found- 
ing a College in this Colony'' The Library thus 
formed, coniifled of about 40 folio Volumes ; and 
Rev. Samuel RulTell of Branford, was appointed 
the Keeper. This Collection, with its Additions, 
was kept at Branford nearly three Years, when it 
was removed to Killingworth, the Relidence of 
Rev. Abraham Pierfon, the Re6lor of the Col- 
lege. 

In Oftober, 1 701, the Collegiate School received 
a Charter from the Legiflature of the Colony of 
Connecticut. It is probable that on the Death of 
Redor Pierfon, in 1707, the Library was tranf- 
ferred to Saybrook, the Seat of the College, and 
there remained until 171 8. 

About 171 3, the Library was increafed by feveral 
Donations, efpecially by a conliderable Colleftion 
S 



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fent from England by Sir John Davie, prevloufly of 
Groton, Conn. In 1714, a large Addition was 
made through the generous Efforts of Jeremiah 
Dummer, Colonial Agent at London, who fent 
about 800 valuable Volumes. Of thefe, 120 were 
his own Gift, about 40 were given by Gov. Yale, 
and the Remainder were, through Mr. Dummer's 
Inftrumentality, prefented by Gentlemen in Eng- 
land, among whom were Sir Ifaac Newton, Dr. 
Edmund Halley, Sir Richard Steele, Dr. Bentley 
and Dr. Calamy. Another Donation of about 300 
Volumes was fent by Gov. Yale, in 1717, and Mr. 
Dummer added in 171 8, about ^^ Volumes more. 

In 1 717-18, the College was tranfferred to New 
Haven, and a large CoUege-houfe was here built, 
which in September, 171 8, was named Yale 
College, in Commemoration of the Generolity of 
Elihu Yale, then a Relident of London, but a Native 
of New Haven. The Name was foon extended to 
the whole Inftitution, but was not its legal Title 
until 1745. 

In December, 171 8, the Library was removed 
to New Haven, not without violent Oppolition, 
and about 250 Volumes were loft in the tranffer. 

Occaiional Donations of Books were from this 
Time received, but none of much Magnitude until 
the Year 1733, when Rev. George Berkeley, Dean 
of Derry, in Ireland (who when in Rhode Ifland a 
few Years previous, had given to the Library Copies 
of his own Works), fent to the College a moft im- 
portant Donation, amounting to nearly a thoufand 



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Volumes, and making the fineft Colledlion of Books 
which, up to that Time, had ever come at once 
into America. 

In 1743, a Catalogue of all the Books in the 
Library was prepared by Prefident Clap* It was 
arranged according to SubjecSts, and was printed in 
a Volume of 48 Pages, 1 2°. at New London, in 
1743. The Number of Volumes in the Library at 
this Time was about 2,600. The Catalogue was 
accompanied with an Introduction, by Rev. Dr. 
Johnfon, of Stratford, afterwards Prefident of 
Columbia College, N. Y., exhibiting a general View 
of all the Arts and Sciences, with a Catalogue of 
fome of the moft valuable Authors on each Part of 
Philofophy proper to be read by Students. 

From this Time to the latter Part of the Century, 
the Library increafed but flowly. The College had 
fcarcely any Funds for the Purchafe of Books, and 
the Number prefented was not large. During the 
War of the Revolution, the Library was fent into 
the Interior to fecure it from the Enemy, and many 
Books were probably thus loft. 

The Fund for the Increafe of the Library was 
commenced in 1763, when the Sum of ten Pounds 
(Conn. Currency) was received by Bequeft from 
Rev. Jared Eliot, of Killingworth. In i yyy, a like 
Sum was received from Rev. Thomas Ruggles of 
Guilford. In 1791, a Bequeft of $1,122 was re- 
ceived from Rev. Samuel Lockwood, D. D. of 
Andover, Conn. 

In 1805, an important Addition was made by 



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the Purchafe of about 2,000 Volumes by Profellbr 
Silliman, during his Viiit to Europe. 

In 1807, Hon. Oliver Wolcott, then reliding in 
New York, gave $2,000 to the Library Fund. In 
1 8 2 1 , a Bequeft of $3,000 was made to the College 
by Noah Linily, Efq. of Wheeling, Va., but previ- 
oufly of Branford, Conn. By Vote of the Corpo- 
ration, the Income of this Gift was affigned to the 
Library, and was fo continued until the Year 1851. 

In 1 823, a Donation of feveral hundred Volumes 
was made by Rev. Jedediah Morfe and Prof. S. F. 
B. Morfe. The fame Year, Eli Whitney, Efq. of 
New Haven, gave to the Fund $i;oo, the Income 
to be expended in the purchafe of Books on Practical 
Mechanicks. Daniel Wadfworth, Efq. of Hartford, 
likewife gave $500, the Income to be ufed for buy- 
ing Books on Natural Hiftory and Chemiftry. 

In 1833, the Sum of $5,000 was contributed to 
the Fund, by John T. Norton, Efq. of Albany, 
N. Y., now of Farmington, Conn. 

In 1836, the Library Funds were enlarged by a 
Bequeft of $10,000, received from Alfred E. Per- 
kins, M. D. of Norwich, Conn. This Legacy 
forms a feparate Fund, and the Income thereof is 
expended in buying Books to be kept apart, and 
forming a diftind; Portion of the Library. 

In 1843, a Bequeft made in 1825, by Rev. John 
Elliott, of Guilford, reached the amount of $1,000. 
By the Terms of Gift, $50 of the annual Income 
of this Fund is to be applied in buying Books for 
the Theological Department. 



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In 1845, the Income of the Library Funds 
having accumulated to a conliderable Amount, 
ProfelTor Kingfley, who was the Librarian for nine- 
teen Years previous to 1825, and was every way 
quahfied for the Undertaking, went abroad, and 
expended in England, Holland, France, and Ger- 
many; about $8,000 in the purchafe of Books. 

In I 849, a Legacy left for the Library Fund by 
Mr. Addin Lewis, of New Haven (who died in 
1 842), reached the intended amount of $5,000, and 
the annual Income has lince been applied to the 
Library. 

In 1850, a Gift of $500 to the Library Fund, 
refulting from a previous conditional Subfcription 
to another Objedl, was received from ProfefTor 
Kingfley. 

A Building for the Reception of the Library of 
the College and the Libraries of the literary 
Societies of the Inflitution, was commenced in 
1 842. The College Library was removed in 1 843, 
into one of the fmaller Apartments, but the prin- 
cipal Hall was not ready for the Reception of Books 
until 1 846. The Building is of Gothick Style, and 
the Material is brown Sandftone from Portland, 
Conn. It comprifes two Halls for the College 
Library, with Reading-room, Ante-room and 
Librarian's Room connedied, and alfo feparate Halls 
for the Society Libraries. The fouthern Wing 
(neareft the Obferver, on the Sketch) is occupied by 
the Library of the Lionian Society, the northern 
by that of the Brothers' Society. The Dimenfions 



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of the Building are as follows : whole Front, i 5 1 
Feet ; Front of main Hall, 5 1 Feet ; Length of do. 
95 Feet ; Front of each Wing, 30 Feet ; Length of 
do. 67 Feet; conneding Wings, 26 Feet by 40 
Feet; extreme Height of Towers, 91 Feet; interior 
Dimenfions of main Hall, 83 Feet by 41 Feet; 
Height of Nave, 5 1 Feet. The entire Coft of the 
Structure, when ftone Pinnacles are added, will be 
about $40,000. 

The Library, though not fo large as could be 
willied, is a good one, and is gradually enlarging by 
the Expenditure of the Income of the Funds and 
by Donations, No Catalogue has been publifhed 
fince 1823. A raanufcript Catalogue on Cards is 
in Courfe of Preparation, but it is not propofed to 
print it. The Library has no ancient Manufcripts 
of Lnportance. Among the modern ones which it 
polTeiTes are about forty Volumes left by Pref Styles, 
which are often confulted, being fpecially valuable 
in relation to the political and ecclefiaftical Hiftory 
of this Country. It has alfo a CoUedion of Papers 
relating to the Controverfy between the Mohegans 
and the Colony of Conned:icut. Of the more 
valuable printed Works which it comprifes, the 
following may perhaps be worthy of mention, viz : 
A Collediion of American Newfpapers of 1765-6, 
gathered by Dr. Stiles, with reference to the Stamp 
Ad:, 4 Vols, folio. This is a unique Colledion 
of great hiftorical Value, and not to be replaced 
in Cafe of Accident or Lofs. Purchas, his Pil- 
grimes, 5 Vols, folio, 1625-6 (a fine Copy); 



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Grsvii Gronovii Thefaurus Antiquitatum, etc. 
87 Vols, folio; Muratori's Scriptores Italici, 24 
Vols, folio ; Defcription de I'Egypte, Paris (an 
early Copy), 1809, etc. 22 Vols, folio; Kingfbo- 
rough's Antiquities of Mexico, 9 Vols, folio ; 
Silveflre's Paleographie Univerfelle, 4 Vols, folio ; 
Zahn's Antiquities of Pompeii, Herculaneum and 
Stabia, folio ; Documents Inedits fur I'Hiftoire de 
la France, 107 Vols. 4°. (in Progrefs) ; Annali dell' 
Inftituto di Corrifpondenza Archeologica, 1829- 
45, 16 Vols. 8°.; Bullettino do. 1 829-1 844; 
Maii Scriptorum Veterum Nova Colled:io Vati- 
cana, 10 Vols, folio; Maii Spicilegium Roman- 
um, 10 Vols, 8°.; Piranefi's Colleftion of Italian 
Antiquities, etc. 27 Vols, folio ; Pertz's Monumenta 
Germaniae Hiftorica, Vols. 1-8, folio; Fungruben 
des Orients, 6 Vols, folio ; Milan Edition of the 
Italian Claffics, 400 Vols. 8°,; Allgemeine Literatur 
Zeitung, complete, 1785-1849, 141 Vols. 4°.; 
Berliner Jahrbiicher, complete, 1 827-1 845, 33 Vols. 
4°. ; Wiener Jahrbiicher der Literatur, complete, 
1 8 1 8- 1 849 ; Collection of orignal Pamphlets con- 
cerning Englifh Affairs from Charles I. to James 
II. Publications of the Englifh Record Com- 
miffion, 74 Vols, folio; Calvin's Opera Omnia, 9 
Vols, folio ; Taylor's Tranflations of Plato and 
Ariftotle, 19 Vols. 4°.; Hanfard's Parliamentary 
Debates, 137 Vols. 8°.; Ternaux-Compans's Col- 
lection of Voyages, &c. relative to the Difcovery of 
America, 20 Vols. 8°. Paris ; Erfch and Griiber's 
Encyclopaedia, 100 Vols. 4°. (in Progrefs); Catelby's 



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Natural Hiftory of Carolina, folio ; Byzantine Hif- 
torians, Venice Edition, 23 Vols, folio. A Collec- 
tion of about 4,000 Vols, chiefly in ecclefiaftical 
Hiftory and patriftick Theology, formerly belong- 
ing to Prof. J. K. Philo, of the Univeriity of Halle, 
who died in 1853, was added to the Library by 
Purchafe in 1854. 

The oldeft printed Work in the Library is a 
Copy of two Tradis of St. Auguftine (de Vita 
Chriftiana, etc.), printed by Ulric Zell, of Mayence, 
A. D. 1467. 

During Term-time, the College Library is open 
every fecular Day, from 10 A. M. to i P. M., and 
from 3 to 5 P. M., and in Summer ufually an Hour 
or two more. The Perfons entitled to borrow from 
the Library, are the ProfelTors and Teachers of the 
College, Members of the profeffional and fcientifick 
Schools, and of the Junior and Senior Clafles, and 
fuch other Perfons as the Library Committee may 
authorize. For Confultation, however, the Library 
is opened freely to every Applicant. Books are 
occalionally loaned to Perfons at a Diftance, by 
Permiffion of the Committee, 

Edward C, Herrick, A. M., Librarian, 



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LIBRARY OF BROWN UNIVERSITY. 

■ 28,500 Vols. 

THIS Library, which is in the lower Part 
of Manning Hall, although not fo large, 
numerically ipeaking as other Libraries 
which we have defcribed, is regarded by Biblio- 
graphers as very choice and valuable. A large 
Proportion of the Books have been feledted and 
purchafed within the laft twenty Years, Vv^ith fpecial 
Reference to the Wants of Students and Gentle- 
men engaged in literary and fcientifick Refearch. 
The Departments of Bibliograpliy, the Clafficks, 
Englifh Hiftory and Literature, the Fathers or 
Patrifticks, Mathematicks, and the Modern Lan- 
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guages, are quite full and comparatively com- 
plete. The Library has a large Colledlion of bound 
Pamphlets, including 278 Volumes collected and 
prefented by the Hon. Theron Metcalf of Bofton, 
a Graduate of the Clafs of 1805. Of thefe, 58 are 
Ordination Sermons, and deferve efpecial Notice. 
They contain i 300 Difcourfes preached at Ordina- 
tions, Inftallations and Inaugurations in the United 
States, and chiefly in New England, conftituting 
without Doubt the largefl Collection of this Kind 
that has ever been made. There are alfo in Judge 
Metcalf's Collection, 70 Volumes of Funeral Ser- 
mons, as follows : Miniflers, 20 Volumes ; Bofton 
Minifters, 5 ; Minifters' Wives, 4 ; Women, 6 ; 
Prefidents of the United States, 6, &c. ; 1 9 Volumes 
of Century and Half Century Difcourfes ; 12 Vol- 
umes of Fourth of July Orations, including all de- 
livered before the Municipal Authorities of Bofton 
from 1800 to 1857; Difcourfes on Walhington, 
5 Volumes; Miffionary Sermons, i 2 Volumes ; Phi 
Beta Kappa Addreifes, 4 Volumes, &c. &c. The 
Importance of fuch a Collection as this, in Connec- 
tion with the ecclefiaftical and civil Hiftory of our 
Country, can hardly be over eftimated. The whole 
Number of Books in the College Library, exclufive 
ofalargeNumber of unbound Pamphlets, is 28,500, 
In Addition to thefe, the Philermenian and United 
Brothers' Societies have about 6,000 Volumes, 
making a Total of 34,500. 

Brown Univerlity was incorporated in the Year 
1764. It was originally eftablilhed in the Town 



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of Warren, R. L, where, in the Year 1769, the firft 
Commencement was celebrated. It was fubfe- 
quently removed to Providence, where the iirft 
College Edifice (Univerfity Hall) was eredted, in 
the Year 1770. The firft Books obtained for the 
Library, were procured through the Agency of the 
Rev. Morgan Edwards of Philadelphia, who in the 
Years 1768-9, vifited England, Wales and Ireland 
to procure Funds for the College. In 1826, the 
Library contained 5,818 Volumes, of which 1300 
were bequeathed to it by the Rev. Wm. Richards, 
LL. D., of Lynn, England, in the Year 1 8 1 8. This 
Collediion is in many Refpedis valuable, containing 
a confiderable Number of Welfh Books, Works 
illuftrating the Hiftory and Antiquities of England 
and Wales, and feveral hundred bound Volumes of 
Pamphlets, many of them very ancient, rare, and 
curious. Mr. Richards was a Native of South 
Wales, and for many Years Paflor of the Baptift 
Church in Lynn, where he died in the 69th Year 
of his Age. 

Soon after the Acceffion of the Rev. Dr. Wayland 
to the Prefidency of the College, Efforts were made 
to increafe the Efficiency of the Library, by raifing a 
Fund for the Purchafe of Books, and alfo Apparatus 
for the philofophical and chemical Departments of 
the Univerfity. Thefe Efforts were fo far fuccefT- 
ful, that the Sum of $19,437 was obtained, of 
which the Hon. Nicholas Brown, with his wonted 
Liberality, gave 10,000. It was put on Interefl 
until 1839, when having increafed to twenty-five 



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thoLiland Dollars, it was invefted in a permanent 
Fund, according to the Provilions of the Subfcrip- 
tion. The annual Income of this Fund is $1,750, of 
which about $250 is appropriated for Apparatus, and 
the Remainder devoted to the Purchafe of Books. 

The Room uled for the Library, at the Time 
when the Library Fund was raifed, " was an 
Apartment in Univerfity Hall, crowded to Exce's, 
unfightly and wholly unfuited for the Purpofe to 
which, from Neceflity it was devoted." To remedy 
this Defecfl, the Hon. Nicholas Brown erected at 
his own Expenfe a beautiful Edifice, for a Library 
and Chapel ; to which, in Teftimony of Veneration 
for his former Inftrud:or, he gave the Name of 
Manning Hall. At the Dedication, February 4, 
1835, Dr. Wayland delivered a Difcourfe on the 
*' Dependence of Science upon Revealed Religion," 
which was publiilied. 

This Hall, the third College Building which has 
been eredred, is of the Dorick Order, built of rub- 
ble Stone; and covered with Cement. Including 
the Portico, it is about 90 Feet in Length, by 42 
Feet in Width. Its Height, from the Top of the 
Bafement, is 40 Feet. The Library occupies the 
Whole of the firft Floor, and is a beautiful Room, 
ornamented in the Centre with a double Row of 
lluted Columns, from which the Shelves extend to 
the Walls, forming twelve Alcoves. Its Dimen- 
fions are 64 Feet by 38, and 13 Feet high. Extra 
Shelves for the Accommodation of the Books have 
been confl:rud:ed in every available Place through- 



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out, and already they are completely filled. This, 
together with the Fa6t that the Building is not 
Fire-proof, points to the Neceffity of a more capa- 
cious and fubflantial Edifice at a not far difiiant 
Day. 

Soon after the Removal to this Building, the 
Library was newly arranged, and in 1 843 a full 
Catalogue of its Contents was printed. This 
Catalogue was favourably noticed in the North 
American Review, and in other leading Periodicals, 
and drew efpecial Attention to this important De- 
partment of the Inftitution. It was prepared by 
Prof C. C. Jewett, who was the Librarian of the 
Univerfity from 1841 to 1848, when he refigned, 
in order to take Charge of the library Department 
connected with the Smithfonian Inftitution at 
Wafliington. The Catalogue is alphabetical, ac- 
cording to the Authors' Names, and has a copious 
and analytical Index of Subjed:s. A Supplement 
much larger than the original Volume, and on the 
fame Plan, has been prepared on Cards. 

Shortly afterwards a Chair of modern Languages 
was eftablifhed at the College ; and Mr. Jewett, 
the Profefibr eled:, was encouraged to vifit Europe, 
partly for the Purpofe of profeflional Study, and 
partly to enable the Friends of the Inftitution to 
carry out their Wifhes more effectually for the In- 
creafe of the Library. Prof. Jewett was authorized 
by Mr. John Carter Brown (Son of the Hon. 
Nicholas Brown, from whom the Inftitution derives 
its Name), to Purchafe at his Expenfe, fuch Books 



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in the German, French and ItaHan Languages, as he 
might think moft ufeful for the College. The Col- 
ledtion thus obtained, numbering 292 1 Volumes, was 
feledied with great Pains and excellent Judgment ; 
and notwithstanding they were purchafed without re- 
gard to Coji, the average Price per Volume, including 
all Expenfes, was only 89 Cents. They are all well 
bound, moft of them newly and elegantly, in half 
Calf, plain Gilt. The Colleftion includes a Set of 
the French, German and Italian Clailicks, in the 
beft and fulleft library Editions ; the Principal phi- 
lofophical, fcientifick and hiftorical Works of late 
continental Scholars ; a complete Set of the Moni- 
teur Univerfel, from its Commencement to 1826, 
a clean, beautiful, well bound Copy of the original 
Edition, in jj Vols, folio ; a Set of the Memoirs of 
the French Inftitute lince its Reorganization, 61 
Vols. 4°. ; the Collediion of Memoirs relative to 
the Hiftory of France, by Guizot and Petitot, 162 
Vols. 8°.; Biographie Univerfelle, 52 Vols, full 
Calf, 8°. ; a complete Set of the Allgemeine 
Literatur-Zeitung, 134 Vols. 4°. ; and of the All- 
gemeine Deutfche Bibliothek, 133 Vols. 8°.; II 
Vaticano, 8 Vols, folio, ellegantly illuilrated; II 
Campidoglio, 2 Vols, folio; the Mufeo Borbonico, 
1 3 Vols. 4°., the original Naples Edition ; the 
Works of Canova and Thowaldfen ; the Mufee 
Fran^ais and Mufee Royal, in 6 Vols, folio ; the 
Defcription de I'Egypte ; Canina's Architecture, 
and many more illuftrated Works of great Beauty 
and Value, befides rare and coftly Maps and Prints. 



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Thefe Books were moftly purchafed at the Auctions 
in Paris, Rome, Leiplic, Frankfort on the Maine, 
and BerUn. Mr. Brown has lince continued the 
Moniteur, Memoirs, Mufeo Borbonico, &c., down 
to the prefent Time. 

To fnpply the Deficiencies of the Library in 
ftandard EngUfh Works, a Subfcription was opened 
among the Friends of the College, amounting to 
about $5,000, and Mr. Jewett was appointed to 
feledt and purchafe the Books. This Colle(fl:ion 
was received in the Library in 1 845, and raifed the 
whole Number of Volumes to nearly 1 9,000. 

Among the Englifh Books added to the Library 
at this Time is a Shakfpeariana, in 196 Volumes, 
bound in full Calf, gilt. It was collected by Thos. 
Rodd, Efq. Bookfeller in London, and contains 
Ireland's own Copy of his Confejjions^ inlaid (as the 
Book-binders term it) with marginal Notes in his 
own Handwriting, and many original and curious 
Documents. The Collection was purchafed for 
the fmall Sum of $500, and was prefented to the 
Library by the late Mofes B. Ives, Efq. a Graduate 
of the College in 1 8 1 2, for nearly thirty-two Years 
its Treafurer, and on all Occalions one of its mofl 
zealous and active Friends. 

The Clafs which graduated in 1821 held a Meet- 
ing in Providence, a Quarter of a Century from the 
Time of their Graduation, at which a confiderable 
Sum of Money was fubfcribed for the Benefit of 
the Library, in Token of their grateful Interefl in the 
Inftitution at which they were educated. The 



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Money thus obtained was placed in tlie Hands of 
Dr. Thomas H. Webb, of Bofton, who purchafed, 
with excellent Judgment, about five hundred Vol- 
umes, moftly from the Library of the Hon. John 
Pickering. Among thefe are 50 Volumes of the 
'* Hiftoire de I'Academie Royale des Infcriptions et 
Belles-Lettres" ; Fabricii Bibliotheca Gra^ca, 14 
Vols. 4". ; and a large, thick folio Volume of Plu- 
tarch's Lives, in Latin, publifhed at Rome, in 1471. 

The next Year, 1847, the Rev. Samuel Ol'good, 
D. D. of New York, at that Time a Clergyman 
in Providence, propofed to feveral of the religious 
Societies of the City, a Subfcription for the Purpofe 
of fupplying the Deficiencies of the Library in the 
beft Editioijs of the Fathers of the Church, and the 
ftandard theological Writers of the Reformation. 
About $2,000 were raifed, and a fine Collection 
was purchafed of the Benedid:ine Editions of feveral 
of the Fathers ; the Bibliotheca Maxima Veterum 
Patrum, 30 Vols, folio ; Harduin's Collecftio Con- 
ciliorum, 1 2 Vols, folio ; befides the choiceft and 
moft elegant Editions of many of the Fathers not 
edited by the Benedid:ines, and a large Collecflion 
of Works connefted with Pariftick Literature and 
the Hiftory of the Reformation. To this Collection 
of the Fathers valuable Additions were made at the 
recent Sale in New York of the Library of the late 
Dr. Jarvis. 

The following are fome of the more important 
Works wdiich have recently been added to the 
Library, moflly by Purchafe^ viz : Dryden and 



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Swift's Works, edited by Sir W. Scott, 37 Vols. 8°. ; 
Corpus Scriptorum Byzantine Hiftorias, Venice 
Edition, 30 Vols, folio; Dugdale's Monafticon, 
latefh Edition, 8 Vols. Royal 4°. ; Caiiri's Bibliotheca 
Arabico-Hifpana, 2 Vols, folio ; Brequigny's Table 
Cronologique des Diplomes, &c. 3 Vols, folio ; 
Memoirs of Thomas Hollis, 2 Vols. Royal 4°.; 
Centuris Eccleiiaftics Hifl:ori2e,XIII, 1 3 Vols, fmall 
folio ; Grofe's Military Antiquities, and Antiquities 
of England, Wales, and Scotland, 1 2 Vols. 40. ; 
Holbrook's North American Herpetology, 5 Vols. 
40. ; Gay's Hiftoria de Chile, 23 Vols. 8°. of Text 
and 2 Vols, folio of Plates (prefented by Don Gero- 
nimo Urmeneta of Santiago) ; Tholuck's Lit. An- 
zeiger, 1830-49, 11 Vols. 4°.; Wailly's Elements 
de Paleographie, 2 Vols, large Paper, royal 4°. ; 
Nagler's Kiinftler-Lexicon, 22 Vols. 8°. ; Mont- 
faucon's Antiquite Expliquee, 1 5 Vols, folio ; 
Choifeul's Voyage Pittorefque de la Grece, 3 Vols, 
folio; Harleian Mifcellany, edited by Park, 10 
Vols. Royal 4°. ; Lord Somers's Collecflion of Tradis, 
edited by Sir W. Scott, 1 3 Vols, royal 4°. ; The 
Port Folio, 5 Vols. 4°. and 42 Vols. 8°. ; Bloom- 
field's Critical Digeft, 8 Vols. 8°. ; Agaffiz's Re- 
cherches fur les PoilTons Foffiles, 5 Vols. 4°. and 5 
Vols, folio; Winckelmann's Monument! Antichi, 
2 Vols, folio ; Gregorio's Bibliotheca Scriptorum 
Siciliae, 2 Vols, folio ; Baronii Annales Eccleliaftici, 
Lucca Edition, 38 Vols, folio; Dodwell's Claffical 
Tour, 2 Vols. 4°. ; Calvin's Opera Omnia, 9 Vols, 
folio; Picart's Ceremonies et Coutumes, 10 Vols. 
U 



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folio; Sigonii Opera Omnia, ed. Muratori, 6 Vols, 
folio ; Suicer's Thefaurus, 2 Vols, folio ; Pradus et 
Villapandus in Ezechielem, 3 Vols, folio ; Moreri's 
Didtionnaire Hiftorique, i o Vols, folio ; Spanheim's 
Numifmata, Gibbon's Copy, 2 Vols, folio ; Hefychii 
Lexicon Grscum, 2 Vols, folio ; Duchefne's Script- 
ores Francorum et Normanorum, 6 Vols, folio ; 
Schott's Scriptores Hifpanias, 4 Vols, folio ; Piftorii 
Rerum Gernianicarum Scriptores, 4 Vols, folio ; 
Audifredi's Specimen et Catalogus, 2 Vols. 4". ; 
Montfaucon's Bibliotheca Bibliothecarum Manu- 
fcriptorum, 2 Vols, folio ; Cave's Hifloria Literaria, 
2 Vols, folio ; Didiionnaire des Sciences Naturelles, 
72 Vols. 8°.; Revue Encyclopedique, 52 Vols. 8".; 
Mabillon's Annales Ordinis S. Benedicfti, 6 Vols, 
folio; Hiftoire de I'Academie Fran^aife, 1666- 1762, 
87 Vols. 40. ; Annales de Chimie, 120 Vols. 8°.; 
Ad:a Eruditorum, 95 Vols. 4° ; Barros et Couto's 
Deccadas da Afiade, 7 Vols, folio ; Bruyere's L'Art 
de Conftruftion, folio ; Ledebour's Plants Rofficir 
et Altaic^, 5 Vols, folio (a fplendid and very coftly 
Work); Popp et Buleau's Les Trois Ages de I'Archi- 
tedlure Gothique, folio ; Brockedon's Paifes of the 
Alps, 2 Vols. 4°. ; Newton's Opera Oninia, ed. 
Horfly, 5 Vols. 4°. ; Stephani Thefaurus Grxcx 
Linguit, Vols. 1-7, folio; Otto's Thefaurus Juris 
Romani, 5 Vols, folio ; Percy Society Publications, 
Vols. 1-30, 12°.; Fox's A(5ls and Monuments, 9th 
Ed. 3 Vols, folio ; Dupin's Ecclefiaftical Hiltory, 8 
Vols, folio; Ebert's Bibliographical Dictionary, 4 
Vols. 8°. ; Annals of Ireland by the Four Mailers, 



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4 Vols. 4°. ; Hanfard's Parliamentary Hiftory and 
Debates 1066-1857, 245 Yols. 8°.; Allgemeine 
Geographifche Ephemeriden, 1797-1831, 82 Vols. 
8°. ; Ferrario's Romanzi di Cavalleria, 4 Yols. 8°. ; 
Brevets d'Invention, 25 Yols 4°. ; Giggeius's The- 
faurus Lingua Arabics, 4 Yols. folio ; Hemprich 
et Ehrenberg's Icones et Defcriptiones Infed:orum, 
folio ; Graffenried et Stiirler's Archited:ure SuilTe, 
folio ; Gorii Antiqua Numifmata, large Paper, 3 
Yols. folio ; Pinkerton's Yoyages and Travels, 1 7 
Yols. 4°. ; Sternberg's Flora der Yorwelt, 2 Yols. 
folio ; Brotier's Tacitus, 4 Yols. 4°, ; Folard's 
Hiftoire de Polybe, 7 Yols. 4°.; Grsvii Thefaurus 
Antiquitatum Romanarum, 1 2 Yols. folio ; Grsvii 
Thefaurus Antiquitatum et Hiftoriarum Italias, 
Siciliae, &c. 45 Yols. folio ; Corpus Infcriptionum 
Grascarum, ed. Boeckhius, Yols. i & 2, folio ; 
Heeren und Ukert's Gefchichte der Europaifchen 
Staaten, 62 Yols. 8". ; John's "Archiv," and 
"Jahrbiicher" to 1857, 107 Yols. 8°. 

The following are a few of the important Works 
which have recently been prefented to the Library 
by Mr. Brown, viz : Juftiniani Inftitutiones, folio ; 
Yenetiis, N. Jenfon, 1477, (^ fplendid Copy of one 
of the old illuminated Books, bound in full Ruffia) ; 
Babylonian Talmud, 12 Yols. folio, (bound in full 
Goat, gilt); Barnard's Catalogus Bibliothec^ Regige, 
large Paper, 6 Yols. folio ; Philofophical Trafadiions 
of the Royal Society of London, 1665-1857, 78 
Yols. 4°. ; Muratori's Rerum Italicarum Scriptores 
(with Continuation by Tartini), 30 Yols. folio; 



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Journal des Debats, 1800-36, 74 Yols. folio ; Pan- 
zer's Annales Typographici, i i A'ols. 4". ; Livii 
Decades a Lucca Porro Recognitas, folio, Tarvilii, 
J. Vercellius, 1842. (An uncommonly fine Speci- 
men of ancient Typography) ; Year Books, 1596- 
1 640, black Letter, i o Yols. fmall folio ; Aringhi 
Roma Subterranea poft Bofium, &c. 2 Yols. folio, 

1659- 

The Library is open during Term-time, daily, 

from 9 till I ; during Vacations, weekly, on Satur- 
days, from II till I. The Members of the Cor- 
poration and Faculty ; all refident Graduates ; all 
Donors to the Library Fund ; all Donors to the 
Fund for building Rhode Ifland Hall; and all Donors 
to the Library to the Amount of $40, refiding in 
Providence, are entitled to the Ufe of the Library 
without Expenfe. Undergraduates are entitled to 
the Ufe of the Library, and are charged therefore 
the Sum of $3 per annum. 

The Privilege of cofifulting the Library is ex- 
tended, under ordinary Reftriftions, to all Graduates 
of the Univerfity ; to all fettled Clergymen of every 
Denomination, refiding in the City of Providence 
and the Vicinity ; and to all other Perfons on whom, 
for the Purpofe of advancing the Arts, Science or 
Literature, the Corporation or Library Committee 
may, from Time to Time, confer it. Books are 
occafionally loaned to Perfons at a Diftance by fpe- 
cial Permiffion. 

Reuben A. Guild, Librarian. 



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LIBRARY COMPANY OF PHILADELPHIA 

AND THE LOGANIAN LIBRARY. 

70,000 Vols. 

L Library Company of Philadelphia. 

60,000 Yols. 

THE Foundation of the Library Company 
of Philadelphia, was laid in 173 1, when 
but few Refources for literary Refearch 
were acceflible in America. A fmall Number of 
Gentlemen, among whom was the celebrated Ben- 
jamin FrankUn, having fubfcribed the Sum of one 
hundred Pounds, a Colledion was commenced. 



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Subfcribers being allowed to carry the Books to 
their Dwellings for Perufal during their Hours 
of Leifure. The firft Purchafe of Books was made 
in London, the Liftfor the fame having been made 
out, at the Requeft of the Dire6tors, by the Hon. 
James Logan, ** a Gentleman of univerfal Learning, 
and the befl Judge of Books in thefe Parts." By 
flow Degrees new Members were added to the 
Company, and the Stock of Books was annually 
increafed by Purchafes, and by Donations. Among 
the Donors, the then Proprietors of Pennfylvania 
are to be numbered, and from them a Charter of 
perpetual Licorporation was obtained in 1742. 

The Books iirft received from London, were 
taken to Robert Grace's Chamber, at his Houfe in 
Jones's Alley, and there placed upon Shelves and 
catalogued. The iirft Librarian, Louis Timothee, 
gave Attendance from 2 to 3 on Wednefdays, and 
on Saturdays from 10 till 4. Benjamin Franklin 
was the fecond Librarian. Among thofe who fuc- 
ceeded him are included Francis Hopkinfon, the 
Author, and Zachariah Poulfon, the well known 
Publisher of Poulfon's Daily Advertifer. In 1740, 
the Books were removed to the ** upper Room of 
the wefternmoft Office of the State Houfe," the Ufe 
of which had been lately granted to the Company 
by the Allembly. In 1773, the fecond Floor ot 
Carpenter's Hall was rented, and the Books re- 
moved thither. The Britifli Army had Polfcirion 
of Philadelphia, from Sept. 26th, 1777, to June 
1 8th, 1778 ; but it does not appear that the Com- 



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pany faftained any Lois from thofe who compofed 
it. The Officers, without Exception, left Depolits 
and paid Hire for the Books borrowed by them. 
In I yyy, the Library Room was occupied by the fick 
Soldiers. In 1790, the Books were removed to the 
prefent Building, of which the foregoing wood Cut 
is a Reprefentation, in Fifth Street, below Cheflnut. 
The iirfl Stone of this Edifice was laid on the 
31ft of Auguft, 1789; the Minutes ftate, "that, 
upon the Suggeftion of Dr. Benjamin Franklin, a 
large Stone was prepared, and laid at the fouthwefl 
Corner of the Building, with the following Infcrip- 
tion, compofed by the Do6tor, except fo far as 
relates to himfelf, which the Committee have taken 
the Liberty of adding to it : 

Be it remembered, 

In honor of the Philadelphia youth, 

(Then chiefly artificers,) 

That in MDCCXXXI, 

They cheerfully, 

At the injlance of Benjamin Frankliq, 

One of their number, 

Injlituted the Philadelphia Library, 

Which, though jmall at firjl, 

Is become highly valuable and extenjively ujeful. 

And which the walls of this edifice 

Are now dejlined to contain and prejerve ; 

The firjl jlone of whofe foundation 

Was here placed 

The thirty-firjl day of Augujl, 1789. 

The Style of Architecture is of courfe fomewhat 
antique. A Niche immediately over the front 
Entrance is occupied by a Statue of Franklin, ex- 
ecuted in Italy, by Francis Lazzarini, being the iirft 



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Specimen of Sculpture of fo large a Size ever im- 
ported to this Country. The Head is from the 
Bufl of Houdon, and is an excellent Likenefs. The 
Figure is arrayed in Roman Toga, the right Arm 
refting on a Pile of Books, holding in the right 
Hand an inverted Sceptre, and in the left a Scroll. 

It is much to be defired that fome publick fpir- 
ited Individual, emulating the Liberality of a Brown, 
a Gore, an Aftor, or a Peabody, fliould endow this 
venerable and ufeful Inflitution with Funds fuffi- 
cient to ered: a fire-proof Building, the prefent, 
with its precious Contents, being liable at any Time 
to be confumed by Fire. The Sum of $i 3,000 has 
already been fubfcribed for a building Fund, on 
Condition that it be raifed to $20,000. 

The Nu.mber of Volumes now in the Library is 
60,000, exclufive of 10,000 in the Loganian Li- 
brary attached, of which a feparate Account is given 
at the Clofe of this Sketch. They embrace all 
Subjects, the Objed: kept in View being to have 
both a good circulating Library of general Litera- 
ture, and a Colledion of the Standard Books of 
Reference in every Department. Lefs Attention is 
paid to Medicine, Natural Hiftory and Law, than 
to Hiftory, &c. inafmuch as there are fpecial Col- 
ledions of thefe in the Pennfylvania Hofpital, 
the Academy of Natural Sciences, and the Law 
Library. 

The Catalogues of the Library Company of 
Philadelphia, now brought down to 1856, are con- 
tained in three Volumes, of which the firft and 



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fecond, publiilied in 1835, comprife the Books in 
the Library at that Date, and the third contains 
the Titles of all Books added lince that Time, to- 
gether with a general Index. This is exclufive of 
the Loganian Library, to which the Members have 
Accefs, and of which a Catalogue in 450 Pages, 
odavo, was publiflied in 1837. 

From the Preface to the third Volume we ex- 
trad: the following Account of the rareft and moft 
valuable Treafures in the two Collecftions of the 
Inftitution : 

" Of Manufcripts, the moft ancient is an Exem- 
plar of the entire Bible on Parchment, of the Date 
of 1016. The moft beautiful is an illuminated 
Pfalter on fine Velum, and in perfed; Prefervation ; 
though written in Roman Charaders, it appears to 
be a Specimen of German Art of the early Part of 
the 15th Century. Two Volumes of original Let- 
ters of King James L ; two of his official Corref- 
pondence with the Iriih Viceroyalty ; an original 
Diary of the Marquis of Clanricarde (i 641 -1643) ; 
and the unpublifhed Autobiography of John Fitch, 
are noteworthy. 

Of early printed Books, there are feveral of the 
Date of 1470, and others without Date. The 
Loganian Library pofTeifes a Copy of C.axton's 
Golden Legend ; feveral Works from the Prefs of 
Wynken de Worde ; a Vulgate Bible, printed at 
Rome by Sweynheym & Pannartz, in 1471, pro- 
nounced fort rare by Brunet ; another from the 
Prefs of Koburger, at Nuremberg, in 1475; an 
V 



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Engllfli Verfion, printed by Grafton, in 1539, and 
a Nouveau Teftament, printed by Barthelemy & 
Buyer, at Lyons, about 1480. A noble Edition of 
Perceforeft — " de tous les Romans de Chevalerie le 
plus eftime" — in 6 Vols, folio, Paris, 1531 ; an early 
German Verlion, with numerous wood Cuts, of 
Reynard the Fox — "Reynke Vofsde olde," Roftock, 
1549; and Copland's Edition of Caxton's Recuile 
of the Hiftories of Troie, London, 1553, are rare 
and curious. 

Of Works relating to Antiquities, the following 
are the moil remarkable : Lepfius's, Roffelini's, 
Denon's, and Vyfe's Egypt ; Botta's and Layard's 
folio Plates of Nineveh ; Kingiborough's and Le- 
noir's Mexico ; eight folio Volumes of Plates on 
Herculaneum ; Piraneii's Works ; II Vaticano ; and 
Meyrick on Ancient Armour. 

In the Department of Works relating to America, 
the two Libraries may, without Exaggeration, be 
faid to be very rich. The Sets of Newfpapers, 
from the firfl Number of the firft Paper publilhed in 
Philadelphia continuoully to the prefent Time, in- 
clude a Set of Bradford's American Mercury, from 
1 71 9 to 1745 ; the Pennfylvania Gazette (publilhed 
fucceffively by Samuel Keimer, Dr. Benjamin 
Franklin, and Hall & Sellers) complete, from 1728 
to 1804; the Pennfylvania Journal, from 1747 to 
1793; the Pennfylvania Packet (afterwards Poul- 
fon's Advertiler), under various Names, from 1771 
to the prefent Time ; the Federal and Philadelphia 
Gazette, from 1788 to i 843 ; and the United States 



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Gazette, now the North American, from 1791 to 
the prefent Time. After the Newfpapers, may be 
mentioned the ineftimable Collediion of Books, 
Pamphlets, Broadfides, and Manufcripts coiledied 
by Pierre Du Simitiere. before, during, and after 
the Revolution, and purchafed for the Company. 
A Portion of thefe Pamphlets, and the larger Part 
of the Broadfides are believed to be quite unique. 
Befchreibung von Pennfylvania, Frankfort und 
Leipzig, 1704, by Paftorius, the perfonal Friend of 
William Penn, and the Founder of Germantown, 
is believed to be the only Copy in the United 
States ; with it is bound up a German Tranilation 
of Gabriel Thomas's Pennfylvania, and Faulkner's 
Curieufe Nachricht von Pennfylvania, 1702. H. 
J. Wynkelmann's Americanifchen neuen Welt 
Befchreibung, Oldenburg, 1664, with Wood-cuts, 
is a moil curious and extremely rare Publication. 
Other German Works on America not often met 
with in this Country, are Gottfriedt's Hiftoria An- 
tipodum, Frankfort, 1655, and Dapper's unbekannte 
neue Welt, Amfterdam, 1673 ; both have numer- 
ous fine Plates and Maps. Campanius's Kort 
Befkryfnnig om Provincien Nya Swerige callas 
Pennfylvania, Stockholm, 1702, with curious Plates 
and Maps, is one of the few Copies known to exift ; 
and Ovalle's Hifhorica Relation del Reyno de Chile, 
with the Map and all the Plates, is of great Rarity. 
Jones's prefent State of Virginia, London, 1724; 
*' one of the fcarcefl Works relating to Virginia 
publifhed in the i8th Century" — is bound up with 



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*'The prefent State of Virginia and the College," by 
Meffieurs Hartwell, Blair, and Chilton, London, 
1727, which appears to be ftill more fcarce, as it is 
not mentioned either by Rich or Lowndes, nor 
does it appear in the Britifli Mufeum Catalogue of 
1 8 19, Thefe, and other choice Works on the 
American Colonies, have the Initials of Peter Col- 
linfon on their Title Pages. Plantagenet's New 
Albion, Leah and Rachel, and other fcarce Books, 
were reprinted in Force's Hiftorical Trails, from 
Originals in this Library. Aikin's Bible of 1782, 
publiflied under the Patronage of Congrefs, and 
Poor Richard's Almanac from 1733 to 1747, are 
very rare Works. The Library's Set of the Laws 
of Pennfylvania, is complete from the Beginning, 
and of the Journals of the Legiilature nearly fo. 
Indeed, but few Works relating to Pennfylvania and 
Philadelphia are wanting, and of the local Hiftories 
of other States the Collecflion is good. The Col- 
le(5lion of the Publick Documents of the General 
Government is we believe unfurpaiTed by that of 
any other limilar Inftitution. This is owing in 
Part to the Facft, that, as Congrefs met here until 
1 800, the original Editions of the early Congreffional 
Documents found their Way very naturally into 
the Library. 

Not the leaft interefting Portion of the Library 
is that confifting of Works in the Languages of 
Continental Europe. In the Departments of 
Belles-Lettres and Hiftory, the Colle(ftion of French, 
Spanilh, and Italian Books embraces moll of the 



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ftandard Authors. The Edition of the French 
Clafficks, in 32 large quarto Volumes, entitled 
Collections du Dauphin — a beautiful Specimen of 
Typography — and Landino's " rare et recherche " 
Edition of Dante, Venetia, 15 12, are worthy of 
Notice. The German Library is, by no means, 
fo valuable, but it includes the "lammtliche Werke" 
of Luther (89 Vols.), Goethe, Schiller, Jean Paul, 
Zfchokke, Heine, &c. The CoUedtion of Spanifh 
Authors (moftly in the Loganian Library) is the mofl 
complete, and was, and perhaps is, the iineft publick 
Colle6tion in the Country. Many of the Volumes 
are intereiling from their Rarity or intrinfick Worth. 
Among thefe may be mentioned El Conde Lucanor, 
by the Prince Don Juan Manuel (Sevilla, 1575), 
defribed by Ticknor as " one of the rareft Books in 
the World;" an unmutilated Edition of Celeftina, 
the firft Spanidi dramatick Work of Note (1599) ; 
the Cronica del famofo Cavallero del Cid (Burgos, 
1593), and the Coronica de el Rey Don Alonzo 
(1604). It contains, alfo, the excellent Reprint of 
the ancient Spanilh Chronicles (1787), and Zurita's 
Anales de la Corona de Aragon, with the Supple- 
ment of Argenfola. Not to mention the better 
known Names of Calderon, Lope de Vega, and the 
other early Dramatifts, it may be faid that all the 
modern Authors of Confequence, Feijoo, Father 
Ilia, Moratin, Yriarte, Melendez Valdez, and many 
others have been added to it. The Spanifh Writers 
on America are equally well reprefented. 

In the large Collecflion of Englifli Works may 



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be found complete Sets of the Royal Phllofophical 
Tranfadiions, the Gentleman's Magazine, the An- 
nual Regifter, Cobbett and Hanfard's Parliament- 
ary Debates, Curtis's Botanical Magazine, and other 
Periodicals, fome continued for more than a Cen- 
tury; the Publications of the Record Commiffion 
in 177 Vols, folio and 177 Vols. od:avo ; a curious 
Collecftion of 700 Engliih Pamphlets in 36 Vols, 
quarto, publiflied during the revolutionary Period 
from 1620 to 1720, which with Somer's Trad:s, 
the Harleian Mifcellany, and the Camden Society's 
Publications, eminently deferve the Attention of 
the Student of Englilli Hiftory ; a Series of the 
Englifh Chroniclers from Bede downwards, in the 
original Latin, as well as in Englifh ; and Danfey's 
Englifh Crufaders." 

The Loganian Library. 

This Collection, numbering 10,000 Volumes of 
rare and valuable Works, principally in the learned 
and foreign Languages, owes its Origin to the 
Honorable James Logan, the confidential Friend 
and Counfellor of William Penn, and for fome 
Time Prefident of the Council of the Province 
of Pennfylvania. Its Foundation confifts of a 
Portion of his own private Library, which, having 
colled:ed at confiderable Expenfe, he was anxious 
fliould defcend to Pofterity and continue to others 
the Means of profecuting thofe Purfuits he had 
himfelf fo fuccefffully cultivated. With this View, 
he erected a fuitable Building in Sixth Street, 



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near Walnut, for the Reception of a Library; and 
by Deed, vefted it (with the Books and certain 
Rents, for the Piirpofe of increaiing their Number 
and paying a Librarian), in Truftees, for the Ufe of 
the Publick forever. This Deed he afterwards 
cancelled, and prepared but did not live to execute, 
another, in which fome Alteration was made in 
the Funds and Regulations. After his Death, his 
Children, William and James Logan, John Smith 
and Hannah, his Wife (fhe being the furviving 
Daughter), with commendable Liberality, carried 
into effed; the Intentions of Mr. Logan. 

The Loganian Library is attached to the Phila- 
delphia, and by the Rules of the Founder is open 
to the Publick without Charge, Viiiters being per- 
mitted either to read the Books in the Room or to 
take them Home, leaving, in the latter Cafe a 
Depofit in Money to fecure . the Return. The 
Antiquity and learned Character of the Books, 
prefents this Privilege being available to the 
general Reader. As a Library of Reference, how- 
ever, it is invaluable. Li early printed Books, 
the Clafficks, Theology, French Literature previ- 
ous to the nineteenth Century, and Spaniih Works 
on America, it is rich and curious. It alfo includes 
a valuable Collection of Books on Natural Hiftory, 
late the Library of Zaccheus Collins, Efq. 

In 1 83 1, about 200 Volumes were deftroyed by 
Fire, belides an original Buft of William Penn, and 
a Portrait of James Logan. Alfo a curious Clock, 
made by a French Artift, fo conftructed as to ring 



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an Alarm each Day at Sun-fet. This Clock was 
the only one of the Kind in the World. 

The Income of the two Libraries is about $6,500, 
of which Amount $3,000 is expended for Books 
and Binding, thus adding to the Collections about 
1500 Vols, per annum. Perfons entitled to the 
Ufe of the Library (or Libraries) are. Stockholders 
who pay $4 yearly ; and others who take out Books 
on Depofit and Hire. 

Lloyd P. Smith, Librarian. 



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BOSTON ATHENiEUM. 
70,000 Vols. 

THIS Inftltutlon, which is the moft Extenfive 
and Succefflul of its Kind in the Country, 
owes its Origin to a Literary AlTociation 
which was formed in Bofton in the early Part of 
the prefent Century, known as the "Anthology 
r^i„u ;' ^ Publication was conducted by them, 
W 



Club,' 



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entitled " Monthly Anthology." That Society 
eftabliflied a Reading-Room and Library, which 
received fo much Favor from various Quarters, that 
the Proprietors, defirous of rendering their Efforts 
more widely ufeful, tranfferred their Property to 
Truftees, and applied, through them, to the Legif- 
lature of Maffachufetts for an A6t of Incorporation. 
This being granted them in 1807, under the Name 
of ** The Proprietors of the Bofton Athensum," 
one hundred and fifty Shares were immediately fold 
at $300 each. This Amount, with the Addition 
of $1,800 obtained for 18 Life Subfcribers at $100 
each, making in all $46,800, conftituted the Capital 
of the Inftitution at that Time. 

The principal Endowments of the Athenaeum 
before the Year 1847, ^^^ ^^^^ enumerated in an 
Lifcription under the Corner Stone of the new 
Building : 

*' The Sum of $42,000 was raifed for the general purpofes of 
the Athenaeum, by voluntary Subjcriptions for Shares created in 
1807." 

"James Perkins, in 1821, gave his own coftly Manjion in 
Pearl jtreet, which from that time has been the Jeat of the injlitu- 
tion." 

" In the fame year the jum of $22,000 was raijcd by voluntary 
fubfcriptions for Jhares." 

•' Thomas Handajyd Perkins (bcjidcs his earlier and later valu- 
able donations), and James Perkins the younger, fecondcd, in 1826, 
the liberality of the father and the brother, each giving $8,000 ; 
and the Jiam of their contributions was increajcd to $45,000 by 
other Jubjcriptions, obtained chieHy through the efforts and influ- 
ence of Nathaniel Bowditch, Francis Calley Gray, George Tick- 
nor, and Thomas Wren Ward." 

" Augujlus Thorndike, in 1823, gave a choice coUeflion of 
cajls of the mojl celebrated ancient Jlatues." 



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"George Watfon Brimmer, in 1838, gave a magnificent col- 
leSion of books on the fine arts." 

"John Bromfield, in 1846, gave $25,000 as a fund to be 
regularly increajed by one quarter of the income, of which the 
other three quarters are to be annually applied to the purchafe of 
Books forever." 

" The jum of $75,000, for the erefiion of the building, was 
raijed by voluntary jubjcription for Jhares created in 1844." 

This Sam of $75,000 having been found infuffi- 
cient for the Completion of the Building, an addi- 
tional Subfcription for 346 Shares at $300 each, 
was filled up in 1853. The Sum of $25,000, 
called the " Appleton Fund," was alfo received from 
the Truftees of Samuel Appleton, Efq. deceafed, 
thus making the whole Amount $128,000. Lib- 
erality like this is feldom witneffed, and deferves 
honorable Mention. On the firft of January, 1 858, 
the Property of the Athensum, confifting of Real 
Eftate, Stocks, Mortgages, Bonds, Books, Paintings 
and Statuary, at their actual Coft, (without in- 
cluding in the Eftimate any of the numerous and 
very valuable Gifts of Books and Works of Art), 
amounted to $496,703, according to the Treafurer's 
annual Statement. The Income for the Year 1857, 
was $13,407, Of this Amount $5,755 was ex- 
pended for Books and Binding. The Number of 
Volumes added to the Library was 2,000. 

The Inftitution firft occupied Rooms in Con- 
grefs Street, whence it was removed to Scollay's 
Buildings, in Court Street, and in 1810 to the 
Building on Common (now Tremont) Street, North 
of King's Chapel Burial Ground, In the Year 
1822, if was removed to the Houfe in Pearl Street, 



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prefented, as already ftated, by James Perkins. In 
1823 the King's Chapel Library and the Theolo- 
gical Library, containing together i 3,000 Volumes 
of theological Works, were depofited in the Athe- 
naeum, where they ftill remain. In 1826 a Union 
was efFefted with the Bofton Medical Library, and 
its Books, valued at $4,500, were added to thofe 
of the Athen-cEum. In the fame Year, alfo, an 
AlTociation which had been formed for the Pur- 
pofe of a fcientifick Library became merged in the 
Athensum, and its Funds, exceeding $3,000, were 
tranfferred to the Athenasum to be expended in the 
Purchafe of fcientifick Books. 

In July, 1849, the Library was removed to its 
new Home in Beacon Street, jufl above the Tremont 
Houfe. The Location is central, yet free from 
the Noife and Dull of crowded Thoroughfares. 
The Corner Stone of this beautiful Building was 
laid April 27, 1 847, when an Addrefs appropriate 
to the Occaiion was delivered by the Hon. Jofiah 
Quincy. The Edifice which ftands back from the 
Street ten Feet, is fpacious and convenient. The 
Front is 1 14 Feet long, and 60 Feet high, built in 
the Palladian or later Style of Italian Achited:ure, 
of the Paterfon free Stone. The other Walls are 
of Brick. The Foundations are laid in the moft 
fubftantial Manner, fupporting the firft Floor on 
groined Arches of Brick. The interior Arrange- 
ments of the Bafement are mofl complete, both for 
warming and ventilating every Room in the Edifice, 
and for packing Purpofes, Book-bindery, Accom- 



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modations for the Janitor, &c. The main Entrance 
opens into a pillared and panelled inner Veftibule or 
Rotundo, 32 Feet by 28, from which the Staircafes 
condu6t above. On the iirft Floor are two large 
reading Rooms, a bufinefs Apartment, and a fculp- 
ture Gallery, 80 Feet by 40. A Row of iron 
Columns in this and the Story above, renders addi- 
tional Support to the different Floors. The fecond 
Story contains the Library-rooms, two in Front, 
with a fpacious Hall in the Rear, 109 Feet by 40, 
extending the entire Length of the Building. The 
latter is iinifhed in the Italian Style, with great 
Tafle, the Ceiling being decorated. An iron Gallery 
which is reached by five fpiral Staircafes, borders 
the Hall, which is divided by an Archway into two 
Copartments. Within the weftern Diviiion are 
arranged the EncyclopaEdias,Tranfa6tions of Learned 
Societies, Magazines, and other continuous Works, 
in Cafes lining the Walls ; while in the other Co- 
partment are arranged the mifcellaneous Books in 
26 Alcoves, between the Pillars. For Convenience 
and Beauty, this Library-room may well ferve as a 
Model for all limilar Inftitutions. One of the front 
Rooms is for the Ufe of the Librarian ; the other is 
defignedfor the Difplay of mifcellaneous Colled:ions, 
and is furnilhed with Galleries fimilar to thofe in 
the Hall. Thefe Rooms together can be made to 
accommodate 80,000 Volumes. The Picture Gal- 
lery occupies the upper Story, which is divided into 
four Apartments, all lighted from above. The Roof 
affords a magnificent View of the City and furround- 



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ing Country. The whole Building is conftrufted 
in the mofi: fubftantial and workmanlike Manner, 
and refleds great Credit upon the Archite6l, Mr. 
Edward C. Cabot. The Land coft $55,000, 
and the Building $136,000, making a Total of 
$191,000 

Befides 70,000 bound Volumes, including nearly 
2,000 Volumes of Pamphlets, the Library poilelTes 
20,000 or more unbound Pamphlets, about 500 
Volumes of Engravings, and the mod valuable 
Collection of Coins in this Part of the Country. 
For an American Library it is rich in certain De- 
partments, as for Example, in the Reports and 
Tranfa6tions of Learned Societies, in periodical 
Publications in the Englifh Language, Works in 
the Natural Sciences, &c. It has complete Sets of 
the Tranfad:ions of the Royal Society of London, 
the French Inftitute, the Royal Societies of Berlin, 
Copenhagen, Gottingen, Lifbon, Madrid, Stock- 
holm, St. Peterfburg, Turin, &c. It has alfo the 
Encyclopedie Raifonne, 35 Vols, folio; the Ency- 
clopedic Methodique, 258 Vols. 4^., including 37 
of Plates ; Buifon's Natural Hiftory, by Sonnini, 
127 Volumes. 8°. Its Collection of American 
Newfpapers is exteniive and valuable. 

Among other interefting Relicks which are 
worthy of continued Remembrance, is a Collection 
of about 450 Volumes, bound, and between 800 
and 1000 Pamphlets, which formerly belonged to 
Wafliington. About 350 of thefe contain his 
Autograph, and a few of them Notes in his Hand- 



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writing. One little Book has the Autograph of 
Washington in a rude. School-boy Hand, at about 
the Age of 9 Years. There are feveral Autographs 
of Auguftine Wafhington, the Father of the Gene- 
ral ; of Mary, the Mother, and of Martha, the 
Wife. One Book contains on the title Page the 
Autograph of John Cuil:is(firfi: Hufband of Martha), 
and on the next Leaf that of George Wafhington. 
One Volume has the Autograph of Thomas Jetfer- 
fon, a Signer of the Declaration of Independence. 
There are feveral prefentation Copies from eminent 
Authors: Sir John Sinclair, Arthur Young, Eber- 
ling, Alfieri, JefFerfon, Dr. Morfe, and others. Ten 
Volumes contain the Name of Richard Henry Lee, 
in his own Handwriting. Thefe precious Memo- 
rials of the World's beft Hero, were purchafed by 
a few Gentlemen of Boilon, and prefented by them 
to the Athenseum. 

The Reading-room is furniihed with the beft 
Literary and Scientifick Journals of Europe and 
America. 

The Sculpture Gallery contains Cafls of the moft 
celebrated ancient Statues, fele(fted for this Inftitu- 
tion by Canova, at the Requeft of the Donor, Mr. 
Auguftus Thorndike. Among the Works in Mar- 
ble, by American Artifts, the Statue of Orpheus, by 
Crawford, and the Backwoodfman, by Dexter, de- 
ferve efpecial Notice. 

In the Gallery of Pictures, there are fome excel- 
lent early Copies of Works of the great Mailers ; 
Weft's great Picture of Lear ; Trumbull's Sortie de 



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Gibralter ; and Stewart's original Portrait of Wafh- 
ington, and of Mrs. Wafhington, Here are alfo 
the celebrated and unfiniflied Picfture, by Allfton, 
Belfhazzar's Feaft, feveral of his finifhed Works, 
and many of his unrivalled Sketches. 

The following are fome of the Regulations of 
the Inftitution : 

The Proprietors meet annually on the firll Mon- 
day of January. The Officers are chofen annually, 
confifting of a Prefident, Vice Prefident, Treafurer, 
Secretary, and nine Truftees. The Truftees ap- 
point a Librarian and Sub-Librarian. 

The Price of a Share is $300. Each Proprietor 
has, beiides his own Share, two Rights of Admiffion 
tranfferable. Thus, the By-laws open the Doors 
of the Inftitution to a large Number of Perfons ; fo 
that the Proprietor who beftows on others the free 
Ufe of all the Rights he can impart, renders himfelf 
thereby a publick Benefactor. A Life Subfcription 
is $100. Annual Subfcribers pay $10 for the Ufe 
of the Library and Reading-room, but are not 
allowed to take out Books. Certain Perfons, by 
Virtue of their Office, viz ; the Governor and 
Council, Lieutenant Governor, Members of the 
State Legillature for the Time being, &c. are en- 
titled to free Admiffion to the Athena:um. 

A Catalogue of the Library, limilar in Plan to 
that of the Mercantile Library of Bofton, with 
ffiort Titles and Contents, is in Preparation, and 
will be publifhed during the coming Year. 

Wm. Fred Poole, A. M., Librarian, 



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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. 

50,000 Vols. 

OF the early Hiftoiy of the firft Library, but 
few Fadis can be obtained, although but little 
more than half a Century has elapfed fince 
its Formation. Congrefs in the Year 1 800 removed 
from Philadelphia to Wafhington, when an Ad: 
eftablifhing a Library was pafled, April 24th. It 
was mainly through the Efforts of the Hon. Albert 
Gallatin, and Dr. Mitchell, that the iirft Collediion, 
coniifting of about 3,000 Volumes, was made. 
This, which at the Time was regarded as valuable, 
and which, in the early Days of the City was much 
reforted to, was deftroyed by the Britifh Army on • 
the 24th of Auguft, 1 8 14. 
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The total Lofs of the Library Induced Ex- 
Prefident Jefferfon to offer to Congrefs his Col- 
ledtion, confifting of about 1 0,000 Volumes, which 
was Purchafed for about $25,000, in accordance 
with a Bill that finally paffed the Houie by a Vote 
of 81 to 71, January 26, 181 5, Reiped:ing the 
Oppofition to the Purchafe, the Editor of Niles's 
Weekly Regiffer very properly remarks : " It is 
ftrange that the Rancor of Party fhould penetrate 
even in the Temple of Science, and that an Oppo- 
fition was made to the Purchafe of a Colledion 
that any Monarch in Europe would be proud to 
own. For fuch a Library the Britifli Parliament 
would have given £50,000. We are not in- 
formed what this Library cofi:, but venture to fay 
that the Amount appropriated will not pay the 
Expenfe of it, by a large Sum, independent of the 
Value of the Time and Talent employed in the 
Colledtion." {See Nileis Regijier, Vol. 7, Page 285,) 
It included what was chiefly valuable in Science 
and Literature generally, extending more particu- 
larly to American Hifi:ory and Statefmanfliip. In 
the diplomatick and parliamentary Branches it was 
efpecially full. The Letter tendering it to Congrefs, 
and defcribing its Condition and Extent, may be 
found in the 6th Volume of the recent Edition of 
Jefferfon's Works, Page 383. 

In January, 18 17, the annual Sum of $1,500 was 
appropriated by Congrefs for the Library. This 
Sum was afterwards increafed to $3,000, and again 
to $6,000, Of this Sum $c,ooo is for the Pur- 



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chafe of mifcellaneous Books, and $i,ooo for Law 
Books. 

On the Morning of the 24th of December, i H5 1, 
the Library was a fecond Time defbroyed by Fire. 
It then contained about 55,000 Volumes, of which 
35,000 were confumed. The Law Library, con- 
taining 8,000 Volumes, and the Books in the ante 
Rooms, were all that were faved. The Lofs was 
eflimated at $150,000, to fupply which Congrefs 
made large Appropriations from Time to Time. 
The Rooms were immediately repaired, and newly 
fitted throughout, in an elegant and fubftantial 
Manner, under the Dirediion of Dr. Walter, the 
Archited: of the Capitol. 

The principal Room appropriated to the Library 
is a large Hall in the Capitol, on the weft Side 
fronting the Mall. Its Dimenlions are as follows, 
viz : 92 Feet long, 34 Feet wide, and 40 Feet high. 
The new Hall was reopened to the Publick in 
September, 1853. ^^^ Wafhington Union de- 
fcribes it in the following Language : 

" The whole Work, to the moft minute Part, is 
Iron ; and yet fo fplendidly is it painted and gilded, 
fo elaborate and finiflied are the Ornaments, that 
you can fcarcely credit the Fad:. The Ceiling, 
compofed of immenfe iron Plates, looking like 
maffive Blocks of brown marble Panel- work, is 
moft artiftically conftrudied, fo as to combine 
Strength and Beauty in the moft perfed: Harmony. 
It is the only entire Ceiling on the Earth. Run- 
ning through the Centre is the Skylight, which is 



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elegantly ornamented with a Clufler of Stars, num- 
bering Ibme hundreds — perhaps as many as we may 
yet number States in our Contederacy." 

" Next are the two long Galleries — all Iron — the 
Pillars, the Lattice-work, the Baluftrades, the 
Truffes, the Scrolls, the Floors, the Shelves, the 
Alcoves, and the Steps by which you afcend. No- 
thing of the Kind can be more perfectly beautiful 
than the large ornamented Scrolls which appear to 
fupport the Sides of the Ceiling. They reprefent 
elaborate Carving, with golden Ears of Corn and 
golden Clufters of Grapes, interfperfed among their 
Niches." 

The Alcoves are 9 and 8 Feet high, io that 
the Books can be reached with Facility, without 
Ladder or Steps. On the weft Side of the Hall are 
five Windows, one of which leads out upon the 
Colonnade, from which is a fine View of the prin- 
cipal Parts of the City, including the Smithlonian 
Liftitution, the Walhington Monument, the Prefi- 
dent's Houfe, Patent Otfice, Poft OhHce, &c. In 
addition to the large Hall, three fmallcr Rooms are 
appropriated to the Library; one containing large 
Works of Engravings, one ufed as a Committee- 
room, and a third as an Office for the Librarian. 

The Law Library is feparate from the General 
Library, occupying a Room dired:ly oppofite to 
that of the Supreme Court of the United States. 
It contains about 12,000 Volumes, many of them 
Works of great Value. Thefe added to the 50,000 
Volumes contained in the General Library, make a 



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Total of 62,000. The Additions of the paft Year 
to both Libraries amount to about 3,000 Volumes. 
No complete Catalogue has been publifhed lince 
the Fire in 1851. 

The Library is open every Day during the Sef- 
fions of Congrefs, and a Part of the Time during 
Recefs. Members of Congrefs, Heads of Depart- 
ments, Judges of the Supreme Court, Foreign 
Minifters, &c. &c, are allowed to take out Books. 
The Librarian is appointed by the Prefident. The 
prefent Incumbent, who was appointed by Preii- 
dent Jackfoii in 1829, is John S. Meehan. 




SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTE. 



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STATE LIBRARY, AT ALBANY. 

52,000 Vols. 

THE New York State Library was founded 
by an Ad: of the Legiflature, palled on the 
2 1 ft Day of April, 18 18. The Governor, 
Lieutenant-Governor, Chancellor and Chief Juftice 
of the Supreme Court for the Time being, were 
conftituted a Board of Truftees who were diredied 
to caufe to be fitted up fome proper Room in the 
Capitol for the " Purpofe of keeping therein a pub- 
lick Library for the Ufe of the Government and 
People of the State." The Sum of three thoufand 
Dollars, and alfo the further annual Sum of five 
hundred Dollars was appropriated to carry out the 
Purpofes of the Adl. By a fubfequent Enadment 
in 1824, the Secretary of State, Attorney General, 
and Comptroller were added to the above confti- 
tuted Board of Truftees. On the Organization of 
the Board the late Chancellor Kent was chofen 
Treafurer, and John Cook appointed State Librarian 
at a Salary of $350. 

The firft Report of the Truftees, figned by De 
Witt Clinton, John Tayler and James Kent, was 
fubmitted on the 2 2d of June, 18 19, in which it 
was ftated that a Beginning had been made in form- 
ing a Library, and that for the Sum of $2,617*20, 
fix hundred Volumes and nine Maps had been 
purchafed ; a Lift of the fame was fubmitted. In 
1820, the firft Catalogue was printed, forming a 



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fmall duodecimo Pamphlet of twenty-eight Pages, 
and containing the Titles of feven hundred and 
fifty- eight Volumes, three Atlafes, eleven Maps, and 
one Print. 

The Appropriation of $500 for the Enlargement 
of the Library was increafed in 1825 to $1,000, and 
in Addition the Sum of $300 was appropriated from 
the Income of a Fund appertaining to the Court of 
Chancery. Alfo by an Enacftment of that Year the 
Truftees were required to make a Report and com- 
plete Catalogue annually of all Books, &c. belonging 
to the Library. The firft annual Report, which was 
made during the next Winter, concludes with this 
Paragraph : " This Inftitution, under the foftering 
Care of the Legillature, promifes to realize the 
Expectation of its Founders, and to extend its Ufe- 
fulnefs throughout the State." 

Occafional Alterations and Enlargements for 
the Convenience of the Library were made from 
Time to Time, and occalionally extra Grants for 
fuch Purpofes. The Truftees at an early Date 
had mainly in View the Colledion of an extenlive 
Library of Law Books, and large Proportions 
of the Appropriations were expended in this 
Direction. Frequent Mention was made by the 
Truftees in the annual Reports, of their Inability to 
maintain a Library of a mifcellaneous or general 
Characfter, and continue at the fame Time the cur- 
rent Publications and new Treatifes on Law, with 
the Amount of Means placed at their Difpofal. 

For nearly thirty Years the Inftitution continued 



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fteadily to Increafe. Its Importance was conceded, 
and it became apparent that its Supervifion required 
more Time and Attention than could conveniently 
be beftovved by a Body of Men who were con- 
ftantly opprelTed with a Multitude of other official 
Duties. It appeared evident that the Interefts of 
the Library required that a more permanent Board 
of Trulfees iliould be conftituted, and Officers and 
Committees appointed who fhould be fpecially 
charged with its Management and Care. 

Senfible of the Importance of fuch an Organiza- 
tion, the Legillature on the 4th of May, 1 844, 
enadied that the Regents of the Univerfity of the 
State of New York fliould be the Truftees of the 
State Library. The Regents at once affiimed the 
important Truft, and their firfl Meeting as Truftees 
was held on the i6th Day of the fame Month. 
They immediately directed an Inventory to be 
taken of all the Books, Maps, &c. belonging to the 
Library, and as a Refult it was afcertained that three 
hundred and eleven Volumes were miffing ; a Part 
of which, on advertifing in the State Paper, were 
returned. A Committee of the Board, coniifting 
of feven Members, was alfo conftituted and charged 
fpecially with the Care of the Library. Important 
Alterations were made in the Rooms, deficient 
Sets of Books were promptly completed, and Cor- 
refpondence opened with the Secretaries of the 
feveral States requefting them to complete, as far as 
poffible the Colled:ions of Laws, Journals and 
Documents then in the Library. It was decided 



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alfo to procure and continue all Engliili Reports in 
their original Editions. Under fuitable Efforts^ 
condudied mainly by the late Dr. T. Romeyn Beck, 
this Divifion foon attained a decided Reputation as a 
valuable reference Library. A very valuable Addi- 
tion of about 1,200 Volumes, confifting moftly of 
elementary Treatifes on Law v^as made under a Law 
pafled in 1 849, which diredied that any Volumes 
in a publick Library, known as the " Chancellor's 
Library,"* which were not already in the State 
Library, fhould be feledied and placed in faid State 
Library. 

Second to an unequalled Law Library, the Truf- 
tees early declared that they efteemed it a paramount 
Objed: to accumulate, as far as v^as in their Power, 
every Work of Intereft or Value relating to the 
United States. In furtherance of this Defign, in 
1842-3, feveral Individuals, among whom none 
more than Mr. Ifaiah Townfend, interefted them- 
felves with the Trufbees, in procuring for the State 
a "moft valuable Colledtion of Books, made in Paris 
by Mr. David Baillie Warden, himlelf an accom- 
plifhed Scholar and enthuliaftick Colledior. He was 
an American Citizen, and had been for many Years 
an active Member of the Geographical Society of 
Paris. The Library which it v^as propofed to pur- 
chafe of him, was compofed of moil valuable Works 
relating to the early Hiftory of America, and 
was already the fecond of this Characfter which 
Mr. Warden had made, the firft having been 

*The Court of Chancery was abolifhed by the Conftitution in 1 846. 

Y 



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purchafed fome 20 Years previous by Mr. Elliot 
of Bofton, and prefented to Harvard College. 
The printed Catalogue of this Collection, and a 
fupplemental one in Manufcript, contained the 
Titles of 2,185 Volumes, 96 of which were in 
folio, 504 in quarto, 1,248 in od:avo, 336 in duo- 
decimo, belides i 2 Atlafes, 1 2 1 Maps, &c. 9 Medals, 
and 2 Prints. Letters from Hon. Jared Sparks, 
George Bancroft, Augulle Devezac, Henry Ledyard, 
Dr. DeKay and others, fhrongly commending the 
Purchafe, were fubmitted to the Legiflature, and 
that Body, in 1 845, made a grant of $4,000 for 
this Objed:. 

During the next Year the Regents, in compli- 
ance with a Requirement of Law, iffued a new and 
complete Catalogue, the firft under their Aufpices. 
The late George Wood, the Affiftant in Charge of 
the mifcellaneous Department, laboured even to a 
Sacrifice of Mind and Health, in preparing this 
Volume, which, confidering the fmall Amount of 
bibliographical AfTiltance at his Command, evinces 
much Intelligence and accurate Knowledge of 
Books. 

The annual Appropriation for the Purchafe of 
Books was increafed in 1848 to $2,800, and again 
in 1857, to $4,000. In making the laft named 
Licreafe the Legiflature had in View the Purchafe 
of important Works for the Library in the Depart- 
ment of Bibliography. 

It was well known that Mr. Joel Munfell of 
Albany, had for many Years been engaged in col- 



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letting Works of this Speciality, including valuable 
Treatifes on Printing and Engraving. The Mag- 
nitude of the State Library now feemed to demand 
that more enlarged Facilities fhould be afforded to 
thofe conned:ed vs/ith it in Inveftigations in thefe 
Departments. The Subjed: of the Purchafe of Mr. 
Munfell's Collediion was fubmitted to the joint 
Library Committee of the Legiilature, who were 
unanimous in their Judgment of the Importance 
and Value of the Suggeflion, and they recommended 
that with this Object in View the Appropriation 
fhould be increafed to the Sum of $4,000, for at 
leafl two Years. The Purchafe was accordingly 
made in the Summer of 1 857. As we have avoided 
noticing any of the fpecially valuable Works in the 
Library, it will not be neceffary here to make Men- 
tion of any of the Varieties included in this Purchafe. 
A Catalogue of the entire Department is now in 
Courfe of Publication. 

Although the Growth of the New York State 
Library, by Means of annual Appropriations from 
the publick Treafury, has been fteady, ftill it has 
had Facilities afforded it which are fcarcely enjoyed 
by any other fimilar Institution. The valuable 
Publications* of the State, on its civil and natural 

*On the Part of the State, the following Works have been available for 
Exchanges : Natural Hiftory of New York ; Documents relating to the 
Colonial Hiftory of New York ; Documentary Hiftory of New York ; 
Meteorology of New York, from 1 825-1830; Tranfaftions of the State 
Agricultural Society; Tranfaftions of the American Inftitute; Tranfaftions 
of the State Medical Society; Tranfaftions of the American Ethnological 
Society ; Stryker's American Regifter ; Laws, Journals and Documents of 
the Legiflature; Catalogues of the State Library and State Cabinet. 



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Hiflory bring Returns which enrich to an uncom- 
mon Extent this Depolitory of the State's Hterary 
Treafures. The Correfpondence and Exchange, 
condud:ed with foreign fcientifick and literary In- 
ftitutions, is fecond only in Extent to that of the 
Smithfonian Inftitution. The Exchanges, which 
have already placed feveral thoufand Volumes on 
the Shelves of the Library, and for the Maintenance 
of which the State makes a fmall annual Grant, has 
been conducfted mainly through the Agency of M. 
Vattemare at Paris, and the Courtefy of foreign and 
American Confuls, Gentlemen who have uniformly 
been found defirous and ready to identify them- 
felves with Movements of this Character.* 

The Library as at prefent conlfituted, is divided 
into two Departments, viz : the General Library, 
and the Law Library, the latter of which is nearly 
or quite the moft Complete of its Kind in America, 
embracing, befides the domeftick and foreign Re- 
ports and elementary Treatifes, a more extenfive 
Collediion of the Laws, Journals and Documents 
of the feveral States of the Union than can be found 
elfewhere, while the former is particularly rich in 
American hiftorical Works and in the Publications 
of the different European Governments. 

*A recent valuable Refult of this Syftem, was an Exchange with the 
Government of the Netherlands of the Journals and Refolutions of the States 
General of Holland and Well: Vricfland from 1524 to 1797 ; and fecret 
Refolutions of the fame from 165 i to 1795 5 ^^^^ ^ general Index; in all 
260 tolio Volumes. Very few Copies of this great Colleftion are now in 
Exiftcnce ; it is not to be found even in the Imperial Library at Paris, the 
largell and richeft in the World. To complete this Series,' the Govern- 
ment was obliged to add Manufcript Volumes. 



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It is required by Law that a Catalogue of the 
State Library be publifhed every five Years. The 
Truftees prefent an annual Report to the Legiflature 
containing the Lift of Books added to the Library 
fince the previous Report. The Catalogue for 
1855 was publifhed in 1856-7, in three od:avo 
Volumes. Volume L is a Catalogue of the General 
Library, and contains the Titles of 30,01 1 Volumes. 
They are arranged in alphabetical Order, accord- 
ing to the Names of Authors, the Whole, includ- 
ing a copious Index of Subjects, occupying 997 
Pages. Volume II. is a Catalogue of the Law 
Library, occupying 412 Pages. Volume III. is 
a Catalogue of Maps, Atlafes, Manufcripts, En- 
gravings, Paintings, Bufts, Medals, Coins, Seals, 
&c. including a Lift of Donations made during 
the Year 1856, the Whole occupying 286 Pages. 
The Number of Volumes in the Library at the 
Time of the Publication of the Catalogue in 
1850, was 23,274. Since then the Number has 
more than doubled, the average Increafe having 
been 4,000 Volumes per annum.* In 1853 the 
Legiflature authorized the Purchafe of the Corref- 
pondence and other Papers of George Clinton, 
the firft Governor of the State. Thefe Manufcripts 
has been fubftantially bound in twenty-three folio 
Volumes, and placed in the Library, forming an 
interefting Addition to its Treafures. The cele- 
brated Andre Papers, conftituting a Part of this 

*The Number added in 1857 was 5,539. 



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CoUediion, have, for their better Prefervation and 
more ready Examination, been framed and covered 
with Glafs. The Papers of Sir Wilham Johnfon, 
extending from 1738 to 1774, have aUb been ap- 
propriately arranged and bound in twenty-tv^o foHo 
Volumes. Thefe Colled:ions contain much valua- 
ble Information in Reference to the early Hiftory 
of the State, and various Matters connected with 
the Revolutionary War. 

In 1854, the Library was removed to the fub- 
flantial and appropriate Building, weft of the 
Capitol, confl:rud:ed by the Direcftion of the Legif- 
lature of 1 8 5 1 . It is a fire- proof StrucSlure, capable 
of accommodating 1 00,000 Volumes, and is finiflied 
throughout in the Perfed:ion of modern Style. 
The front and rear Walls are faced wdth brown 
Free-ftone, and reprefent a continuous Pedeftal, 
which extends above the firft Story, fupporting a 
Row of engaged Corinthian Columns, and Niches 
with Pedeftals. On the fouth Entablature are the 
Words State Library. 

The Dimenfions of the Building are 1 14 Feet by 
45, belides a Connection to the Capitol by a Corridor 
of 16 Feet. The main Floor is conftrud:ed over 
heavy brick Arches, fupported by ftone Columns. 
The Lintels of the fecond Floor and Galleries, and 
alfo the arched Spans are of Iron, filled in and 
covered with broken Brick and Cement ; the Roof, 
Rafters, TruHes, Window-frames and Shutters, are 
like wife of Iron. 

The main Entrance is on State Street, the Rear 



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opening on the Capitol Park. The Afcent from the 
Street is by three Steps to the Veftibule, which is 
inclofed with ornamental ground Glafs. This opens 
diredily into the Law Department. The Interior 
of both Stories is divided into Alcoves, and on the 
fifteen marble Pilafters of the lower Room are 
Brackets for Bufts. Each Alcove is furnifhed with 
a Table and Chairs of Oak. Stairs conftrufted at 
either End of the Building, in Extenlions, condud: 
to the fecond Story, which has been appropriated to 
the general Department. This Room is lighted 
by fix Sky-lights befides iide Windows. A Row 
of Corinthian Pillars on either Side, which conceal 
iron Columns, fupports a Gallery, which is mounted 
by Stairs at the north End. The Galleries contain 
Newfpapers, Maps, Coins, Pidlures, &c. Four 
Furnaces and one hundred and feventy Gas-burners 
are required to heat and light the Building. The 
entire Flooring is an ornamental encauftick Tile. 
Of Shelfroom the total Number of Feet is 7,812, 
of which 6,235 Feet are to accommodate Books of 
the odiavo Size, and i ^^j for the folios and quartos. 
The Ad: of the Legiflature authorizing this 
Strudure, direded the Commiffioners to ered it on 
the Ground owned by the State in the Rear of the 
Capitol, but allowed them, if they iTiould deem it 
necelfary, to purchafe additional Land adjoining. 
The Sum of $50,000 was appropriated. Before 
the next Seffion, the valuable Library of Congrefs 
was deftroyed by Fire, and it having been pretty 
clearly demonftrated that moil of the Colledion 



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might have been faved, but for the Fa(ft that Wood 
had been ufed in the Conftrudion of the Shelves, 
the Legiilature of New York promptly directed 
that the Alcoves and Shelves of the new Building 
fhould be Iron, and appropriated for that Purpofe 
an additional Sum of $22,000. Further Grants 
were made in 1852-3-4, amounting to $19,000, 
making a grand Total of $91,000, of which Sum 
$1 1,640 was paid for Land, and about $8,000 for 
Fixtures, Fences, Walks ; leaving chargeable to the 
Eredtion and Finilhing of the Library Building, 
about $72,000. 

The Library is open to the Publick daily, from 
the Hour of 9 in the Morning till 5 in the After- 
noon ; and during the Seffions of the Legiilature, 
till 8 in the Evening, except on Saturdays, when it 
is clofed at 5. Any Citizen may read and confult 
the Books, upon the Premiles, at Pleafure ; and the 
Heads of the feveral Departments, Truftees of the 
Library, Judges of the Court of Appeals, Juftices 
of the Supreme Court, and Members of the Legif- 
lature are allowed to draw out Volumes. 

Alfred B. Street, Librarian. 



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ASTOR LIBRARY. 

100,000 Vols. 

THIS noble Inftitution owes its Exigence to 
the Liberality of John Jacob Aflor, a 
wealthy Merchant of New York, who in a 
Codicil to his Will, dated Auguft 22, 1839, be- 
queathed $400,000 for its Eftablifhment. The 
following is an Extrad: from the Will : 



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" Dcfiring to render a public benefit to the city of New York, 
and to contribute to the advancement of ujcful knowledge and the 
general good of Jbciety, I do, by this codicil, appropriate $400,000, 
out of my rejiduar}- cjlate, to the cjlablijhmcnt of a Public Library 
in the city of New York ; the faid amount to be difpojcd of as 
follows : 

"I. In the crc^ing of a juitable building for a public library. 

*' 2. In furnijhing and fupplying the fame, from time to time, 
with books, maps, charts, models, drawings, paintings, engravings, 
cajis, Jlatues, furniture, and other things appertaining to a library 
for general uje, upon the mojl ample Jcale and liberal character. 

" 3. In maintaining and upholding the buildings and other 
property, and in defraying the nccejjary expcnjcs of taking care 
of the property, and of the accommodation of pcrjbns con|ulting 
the library. 

" The Jaid Jiim Jhall be pa3'able one-third in the year after my 
deceaje, one-third in the year following ; and the rejldue in equal 
jums, in the fourth and fifth 3'ears after my deceaje. 

" The Jaid library is to be accejjible, at all reafonable hours 
and times, for general ufe, free of expenfe to perjbns rejbrting 
thereto, Jubjeft only to Juch control and regulations as the trujtees 
may from time to time exercije and ejlablijh for general conven- 
ience." 

By a Provilion of the Will, the Government of 
the Library was vefted in eleven Truftees, in whofe 
Keeping were placed all the Property and Effed:s 
of the Inftitution ; in them exiiled all Power to 
inveft and expend the Funds, and to manage the 
Affairs of the Library. The firft Truftees were 
named by the Teftator, and confifted of the follow- 
ing Gentlemen: Wadiington Irving, William B. 
Aftor, Daniel Lord, jr., James G. King, Jofeph G. 
Cogfwell, Fitz-Greene Halleck, Henry Brevoort, 
Jr., Samuel B. Ruggles, and Samuel Ward, Jr. ; 
alfo, the Mayor of the City of New York, and the 
Chancellor of the State, in relpedl to their Offices, 



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By a fubfequent Codicil, Charles Aftor Brifted, his 
Grandfon, was alfo appointed a Truftee. A Pro- 
viiion of the Will alfo defignated, as the Land 
whereon to ered: a fuitable Building for the Pur- 
pofes of the Library, a Lot fituated upon the eafh Side 
of La Fayette Place, meafuring 65 Feet in Front by 
120 deep. In the further Provilions of the Will, 
the Sum of $75,000 was appropriated to be ex- 
pended, in the Erediion of the Building, and 
$120,000 to the Purchafe of Books and other 
Objedis, in the Eftablifliment of the Library, and the 
Relidue, after paying for the Site, to be inverted as 
a Fund for the Maintenance and gradual Increafe 
of the Library. As early as the Year 1839, Mr, 
Aftor had purchafed a Number of Volumes, aided 
by Dr. Jofeph G. Cogfwell, with the ultimate In- 
tention exprelTed in his Will. In May, 1 848, the 
Truftees of the Library met for the firft Time, and 
in accordance with the known Defire of Mr. Aftor, 
appointed Mr. Cogfwell Superintendent, a Pofition 
which he ftill occupies. In the Autumn of the 
fame Year, Dr. Cogfwell failed for Europe, author- 
ized to purchafe Books to the Amount of $20,000. 
During an Abfence of four Months, he colled:ed 
20,000 Volumes, which were temporarily placed 
in a Building rented for the Purpofe. A fecond 
and third Vifit by the Superintendent, increafed the 
Number of Volumes to 70,000, with which the 
prefent Building was opened, Jan. 9, 1854. 

The Aftor Library is placed in a central and eafily 
acceifible Situation. La Fayette Place, on the eafl 



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Side of which it is built, communicates with the 
two great Thoroughfares of the City— Broadway 
and the Bowery — by Great Jones Street at the 
South, Aftor Place and Eighth Street at the North, 
and by Fourth Street near the Centre. A more 
appropriate Site could not be found in New York. 
The Street has a refined, claffick Air, and is in a 
good Degree exempt from the Throng and Noife 
and Buftle of bufinefs Streets. The Edifice is built 
in the Byzantine Style of Architecture, richly orna- 
mented with brown ftone Mouldings, and an im- 
pofing Entablature. Its Dimenfions are in accord- 
ance with the Directions of the Will, its Height 
being about 70 feet. The Architedf was Alexander 
Saltzer, from Berlin, whofe Plan was adopted by 
the Truftees on the loth of December, 1849. 

The bafement Story is faced with high ruftick 
Afliler, projecting fix Inches, thus imparting an ex- 
tremely bold Relief. The Window-frames are 
placed near the Infide of the Wall, forming deep 
Recefi^es, in order to fecure the fame Effedt. Thefe 
confift primarily of fix, occupying the central Por- 
tion, and admitting Light to the Library Llall, 
placed three above and three below a given Point ; 
the upper conneCled with the lower by Columns 
fupported by Figures reprefenting the Genii of 
Literature. The remaining Windows are two in 
Number, one on each Side of the Entrance. The 
firft Floor is ufed for the Depofit of publick Docu- 
ments, for the Meetings of the Trufi:ees, &c. It 
was originally intended for reading and led:ure 



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Rooms. The Bafement contains the Keeper's 
Rooms, Cellars, coal Vaults, Furnaces for warm- 
ing, &c. The Floors are compofed of richly 
wrought mofaick Work, refting on iron Beams. A 
fingle Flight of thirty-eight Italian marble Steps, 
decorated on either Side of the Entrance by a ftone 
Sphinx, leads nearly to the Centre of the Library 
Hall, which is i oo Feet in Length, by 64 in Width, 
and 50 in Height. This is furrounded by fourteen 
brick Piers, plaftered and iiniihed in Imitation of 
Italian Marble, and fupporting iron Galleries mid- 
way between the Floor and the Ceiling. By four 
iron fpiral Stairways from the Corners of the Room 
the main Gallery is reached, and the intermediate 
Gallery of a lighter Defcription is conneded with 
the main Gallery by eight Staircafes. The whole 
are very ingeniouily arranged, and appropriately 
ornamented in a Style correfponding with the gene- 
ral Architediure of the Building. At an Elevation 
of 51 Feet above is the principal Sky-light, 54 
Feet long by 14 broad, and formed of thick Glafs 
fet in Iron. Beiides this, are circular lide Sky-lights 
of fmaller Dimensions. Thefe in Connediion with 
the lide and rear Windows, furniih all needful Light. 
Iron Fret-work in different Parts of the Ceiling, 
fecure a full Ventilation. In the extreme Rear are 
two Rooms for the Superintendent, which are 
acceffible by Means of the main Galleries. The 
internal Arrangement is a very convenient one, and 
very economical of Space. A Series of feven 
Alcoves or Apartments, open in Front and Rear, 



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fills up the Space on each Side, from the fide Walls 
to the Columns which fiipport the Roof, leaving 
Corridors two and a half Feet in Width along the 
Walls, by which a Communication is eftabliflied 
between the different Parts of the Library. On 
this Plan, the Capacity of the Room for Books is 
more than doubled, that is, for every fifty-one 
wall Shelves, there are feventy-two in the Alcoves. 
On no other could it be made to contain one hun- 
dred thoufand Volumes, its prefent Number. 

The Syfiiem of Clafiification adopted in the Aftor 
Library, is that of Brunet, whofe great Work on 
Bibliography, entitled Manuel du Libraire, is better, 
more complete, and more generally known than 
any fimilar Publication. The following Account 
of the Charadier and Clafiification of the Library, 
is compiled from Dr. Cogfwell's admirable Letter 
publiflied in the Home Journal, Jan. 7, 1854. 

The Arrangement begins with Theology. This 
Department includes the befi: Editions of the He- 
brew and Greek Scriptures, the Walton Polyglott, 
various Editions of the Yulgate, and numerous 
Verfions of the whole Bible, and of Parts of it, in 
the principal Languages of Europe and the Eaft. 
The Collediion of the Fathers is full, but not ablb- 
lutely complete, and contains mofi: of the Benedidt- 
ine Editions, the Bibliotheca Maxima of Defpont, 
the Patres Apofi:olici of Cotelerius, and many others 
of this Clafs of lefs Note. It is equally well pro- 
vided with Works on the Councils, including 
Colet's Edition of Labbe, in 29 Volumes, the Con- 



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cilia Maxima, in 37 Volumes folio, Beveridge's 
Synodicon, Lorenzana, Concilianos Provinciales, etc. 
It is alfo refpe<fi:able in Icholaftick, dogmatick, 
parenetick, and polemick Theology, including the 
early and more recent Engliili Divines, in the bell 
Editions. 

Jurifprudence forms the fecond Department. In 
this the Objed; has been to provide thofe Works 
which are rarely found in this Country, rather than 
to form a complete Law Library. The Collection is 
good on the civil Law, embracing various Editions 
of the Corpus Juris, and Commentaries upon it ; 
it contains, alfo, all the Codes of Scandinavia, and 
of other Parts of Europe, during the Middle Ages, 
the Syftems of Jurifprudence as now pracflifed in 
Italy, Portugal, Germany, Denmark and Sweden, 
the Fuerofs fiete Partidas and Recopilaciones of 
Spain, together with the Digefts and Commenta- 
ries on the MulTulman, Hindoo, Gentoo, and 
Chinefe Laws. In French Law, the Library is 
really rich, beginning with the Ordonances des 
Rois, and coming down to the very lateft Volume 
of the Journal du Palais. The Selection for the 
Engliih common Law was made by two of the 
moll eminent Jurifls in the Country ; it is not large, 
but very choice. For American Law an entire 
Alcove is referved. 

The next Department is that of Sciences and 
Arts, in which of courfe Medical Science is included. 
The Number of Volumes here is comparatively 
frnall, this Department being well provided for in 



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the Hofpital and other Medical Libraries of the 
City. 

The Natural Sciences form another Divifion of 
this Department, and this is one of the richeft and 
beft farniflied in the Library. It is neceflarily very 
coftly, as Naturalifts will readily underftand, when 
they know it contains fuch Works as the Genera et 
Species Palmarum of Martins, in a coloured copy ; 
Plantas Afiaticas Rariores of Wallich, Roxburgh's 
Plants of the Coaft of Coromandel ; a complete 
Set of Gould's Birds of Europe, Auftralia, Himelaya, 
Toucans, and Trogons ; Illuftrations Conchyliolo- 
giques par Chenu ; Audubon's Birds of America ; 
Sibthorp's Flora? Gra^ca? ; Lambert's Genus Pinus, 
and many other Volumes of the fame Charadter, 
comprifmg in all about 7,000. 

The third Divilion of Sciences and Arts is that 
of Chemiftry and Phyfics, to which, from the in- 
timate Relation it bears to them, may be added that 
of the ufeful Arts or Polytechnics. The Tranfac- 
tions of Societies for the Promotion of Science and 
Arts may alfo be afligned to it. Thefe Colled:ions 
contain Memoirs and Papers of great Importance 
to practical Men, as well as to Men of Science. 
The Library contains the Publications of the prin- 
cipal Societies in Great Britain, France, Belgium, 
Holland, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, 
Ruffia, Italy, Spain and Portugal, and alfo of the 
United States, amounting altogether to about 4,000 
Volumes, principally quartos. 

Next in Order are the Mathematical Sciences, 



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of which the Aftor Library has a iirft rate Collec- 
tion. It is rich not only in pure Mathematicks, but 
alfo in all the applied ; in Altronomy, Mechanicks, 
Hydraulicks, Engineering, it is very full, and not 
deficient in military Tafticks. It has drawn largely 
upon the Libraries of feveral celebrated Mathema- 
ticians for Books to form it, fuch as Halley's and 
Legendre's, which were greatly enriched by Mr. 
S. Ward, after they were bought by him ; alfo, 
Jacobi's and the two Heiligenftadts, of Berlin. To 
thefe have lince been added the moll important 
mathematical Works more recently publillied in 
Europe and America. Belides full Collecftions of all 
the publillied Works of Euler and of Gaufs, it has 
feveral unpublifhedManufcripts of thefe great Math- 
ematicians : all the mathematical Journals ; all the 
Works of Newton, Leibnitz, the Bernouillis, La 
Place, Delambre, La Croix, Legendre, Lagrange, 
Jacobi, Abel, etc. ; the allronomical Obfervations 
generally, and a very large Number of mathematical 
DilTertations and Papers, which are not ealily found. 
,, In the Fine Arts the Aftor Library has a fine 
Colled;ion of Works, among which are the follou^- 
ing : A complete Set of Piranefi's Antiquities, proof 
Plates, twenty-eight in twenty-one Volumes ; Mu- 
fee Fran^ais et Royal, proof Plates before the 
Letter, 6 Volumes ; Raphael's Loggie of the Vati- 
can, engraved by Volpato, and exquifitely coloured 
by Hand, in the exad: Style of the Originals, 3 
Volumes ; a complete Set of the Grecian Antiqui- 
ties, I 3 Volumes ; Gruner's Frefco Decorations of 
Aa 



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Italy, coloured by Hand in the fame Style as Ra- 
phael's Loggle, 1 Volume, and Lepfius's Denkmaler 
aus Aegypten, 6 Volumes. Thefe 50 Volumes, all 
large folios, fully bound in red Morocco, except fix, 
coll: $2,975, or $59*50 per Volume. 

In Linguifticks, particularly Oriental, the Aftor 
Library is unfurpalfed by any in this Country. It 
has Grammars and Didionaries of one hundred and 
four different Languages, and numerous Vocabula- 
ries of the rude unwritten ones. It has alfo Chrefto- 
mathies and other ufeful facilities for ftudying them. 
All the Families and Branches of the European 
Languages, and a greater Part of thofe of Afia and 
Africa, are reprefented in the Colledtion. It con- 
tains the beft Works on the Egyptian Hieroglyph- 
icks, the cuneiform Infcriptions, and the other curious 
Records of the ancient Nations of the Eaft, which 
recent Difcoveries have brought to Light. It has alfo 
the befh of the Vocabularies of the different Dialects 
of the Mexican and South American Indians, which 
were collected and publillied by the early Spanifh 
miffionary Priefts. Books of this lafl: Clafs have 
become exceffively rare, and, confequently, dear. 
A perfect Copy of Molina's Art de la Lengua 
Mexicana, cannot be had for lefs than fifty Dollars ; 
and Rincon's Grammar of the fame Lano:ua2:e, a 
mean little duodecimo, bound, or rather done up in 
limp Vellum, which few would accept as a Gift, 
cofts much more than its Weight in Gold. In the 
Oriental Collection are the following two Works, 
which, in this Country at leaft, are exceedingly 



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rare, viz : The Seven Seas ; a Didiionary and Gram- 
mar of the Periian Language, in 7 Volumes, foUo, 
by the late King of Oude, which v^as printed in 
his Palace ; and the Sabda Kalpa Druma of the 
Rajah Radhakant Deb, a Sanfcrit Didiionary in 7 
Volumes, folio. Neither of thefe Works was 
printed for Sale. 

The Hiftorical Department is the lafl: in the Order 
of ClalTification, This Department is fuller perhaps 
than any other, with the Exception of Mathema- 
ticks, Languages and Bibliography. It conftitutes 
a fourth Part at leaft of the whole Library. With 
a few Exceptions, it is arranged in the Series of 
Alcoves extending on the main Floor, from the 
foutheafh to the fouthwefl: Corner. Works on 
Chronology, Diplomaticks, Numifmaticks, Herald- 
ry, Infcriptions and Antiquities, are regarded as 
Introdud:ions to the right Underftanding of Hiftory, 
and are placed in the firft Alcove, with general 
biographical Did:ionaries and univerfal Hiftory. 
Biography does not form a Clafs by itfelf, but is 
placed either with the civil or literary Hiftory to 
which it belongs. Geography, for the more con- 
venient Ufe of Maps and Charts, is placed on the 
fecond Floor; and Voyages and Travels, as moft 
intimately connected with the Difcoveryand Hiftory 
of America, are placed in immediate Proximity to 
it, inftead of preceding the hiftorical Collecftion, as 
they ufually do. Eccleftaftical Hiftory is appended 
to Theology. The remaining hiftorical Diviftons, 
it may be ftated generally, are in the ufual Way. 



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Sometimes it has been found neccllary to bring the 
Hiftory of more than one Country into the fame 
Alcove, in which Cafes regard has been had to the 
Connection exifting between them in the Paft. 
Thus Spanifh, Portuguefe and Itahan Hiftory are 
together; French occupies a whole Alcove; Ger- 
man, Dutch and Belgian are together in an Alcove, 
and with them Scandinavian and Ruffian ; Englifli, 
Scotch and Iriffi Hiftory fills another Alcove; 
Afiatick and African Hiftory, for Want of Room 
below, is placed on the fecond Floor, in an Alcove 
with Oriental Literature. 

To the American Hiftorical Department a larger 
Space in the Library has been affigned than to any 
other, becaufe it is intended to make this the moft 
complete. The Collecftion already formed contains 
moft of the early Spanifli Writers ; the early Voyages, 
the Accounts of the iirft Colonics, the various Hif- 
tories of the War of Independence, and the older 
Books generally. In the more modern ones there 
are many Deficiencies to be fupplied. Not in 
American Hiftory only, but alfo in American Lite- 
rature, it is hoped that the Library will, fooneror 
later, be made complete. 

The Library polfelles a complete Collection of 
Englifli Parliamentary Journals, Debates and Re- 
ports. Thefe amount to nearly three thoufand 
Volumes, chiefly folios ; the long Room on the left 
of the main Entrance-door has been taken for them, 
and for other like European Documents. The 
correfponding Room on the Right will be appro- 



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priated to American publick Documents of the 
United States, and of the individual States. This 
Ufe of them will in no wife interfere with their 
being ufed as Reading-rooms, fhould they be needed 
for that Purpofe. The prefent Arrangement for 
reading is at the Tables in the main Library-room. 

A fpecial Technological Department, embracing 
the various Branches of practical Induftry and the 
mechanick Arts, has recently been founded by Wm. 
B. Aflor. Upwards of $15,000, according to the 
annual Report of the Truilees for 1857, have 
already been expended for Books of this Charadier, 
under the Dirediion of the Superintendent. 

In the Department of Bibliography, the Aflor 
Library is far Superiour to any other in the Country. 
This Department, fo indifpenfable to the Know- 
ledge of Books, and to the efficient and fyftematick 
Growth of every Library, has been founded at 
the Expenfe of Dr. Cogfwell, who continues, 
with charadteriftick Liberality, to provide for its 
Increafe. It embraces, including General Literary 
Hiftory, about fix thoufand Volumes, many of 
which are very rare and coflly. Indeed fcarcely 
one important Work in this Department is want- 
ing. 

On the 3 1 ft of October, 1855, the prefent Build- 
ing having become filled, and the Neceffity for more 
Room obvioufly exifting, Mr. William B. Aftor, 
eldeft Son of the Founder of the Library, made a 
Donation to the Truftees of a Piece of Land im- 
mediately adjacent to the prefent Building, embrac- 



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ing an area 80 Feet wide, and i 20 Feet deep. The 
Sum paid for this additional Lot was $30,476. 
Mr. Aftor aUb announced his Intention of erecting 
at his own Expenfe a Building fimilar to the prefent, 
and to be adapted to the fame Purpofes. Since that 
Date the Foundations have been laid, and the 
Building has rapidly advanced toward Completion. 
The Coft, as eftimated by the Truftees, can fall but 
little {hovt of $100,000. It will correfpond to the 
prefent Building in Materials and external Appear- 
ance, imparting to the Whole the architecftural Effect 
of a fingle Edifice one hundred and thirty Feet in 
Front. A Space of fifteen Feet is left open on the 
northern Side for Light and Ventilation. The 
whole Edifice when completed, will be capable of 
containing 200,000 Volumes. 

The Catalogue of the Aftor Library, which has 
been in Progrefs ever lince it was opened, has been 
a Labor of Difficulty, and requiring and receiving 
the moft careful Attention. It will comprife, when 
finifhed, eight ocflavo Volumes, numbering upward 
of 500 Pages each, four Volumes being devoted to 
an Alphabetical Index of Authors' Names, and four 
to a carefully arranged Catalogue of Subjed:s. It 
will form, when completed, perhaps the moft per- 
fed: printed Library Catalogue ever publiflied. 
The firft two Volumes are already printed, and the 
others are rapidly paffing through the Prefs. 

The Library is open every Day, except Sundays 
and eftabliflied Holydays, from 10 A. M., until half 
an Hour before Sunfet. Admiffion free to all Per- 



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fons over iixteen Years of Age. The Library, like 
the Britifh Mufeum, does not lend out its Books. 
Dr. Joseph G. Cogswell, 

Superintendent. 




INTERIOUR OF THE ASTOR LIBRARY, 



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PUBLIC LIBRARY OF BOSTON. 

65,000 Volumes. 

THE Idea of a free publick Library in Boftoii 
doubtlefs fuggefted itfelf to many Indivi- 
duals before any adlivc Meafures were taken 
to realize the Projed:. As long ago as the Year 



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1836, Lemuel Shattuck, whofe Labors as a Statifti- 
cian are generally appreciated, made fome Suggef- 
tions in relation to preferving the Documents and 
other Publications of the City, and his Plan might 
have ripened into apublick Library had the Subjed: 
attracted more Attention. In 1 843, the city Go- 
vernment received from Paris through the Agency 
of M. Vattemare, about fifty Volumes of valuable 
Books, and in 1 847 a further Donation was re- 
ceived from the fame Source. Upon the Reception 
of the lafl Collediion a Committee was appointed 
by the City council to conlider what Acknowledg- 
ment could be made for the Donation, and to pro- 
vide for the fafe Keeping of the Books. This 
Committee, of which Hon. Joliah Quincy, Jr., 
was Chairman, reported in detail, and introduced 
an Order that a joint Committee be formed to 
confider the Expediency of commencing the Form- 
ation of a publick Library under the Control and 
Aufpices of the City. In connexion with this 
Frojed:, Mr. Quincy offered, on the Part of a pub- 
lick fpirited Citizen (now underflood to have been 
Mr. Quincy himfelf), the Sum of $5000 to the 
Library, whenever $10,000 ihould have been con- 
tributed to the fame by other Citizens, 

The city Council not having the Power to 
appropriate Money for the Formation of a Library, 
Application was made to the Legiflature, and in 
March, 1848, an Ad: was paffed granting to the 
city Government the requilite Power to eftablifh, 
regulate and control a Library for the free Ufe of 
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the Citizens of Bofton, with a Provifo that no Ap- 
propriation for any one Year fliould exceed $5000. 
This A(ft was accepted by the city Council on the 
3d of April, 1848, and in accordance therewith 
Negotiations were opened with the Triiftees of 
the Bofton Athenaeum for the Purpofe of throwing 
its Library open to the Publick. The Propofition 
was favourably received by the Truftees of that In- 
ftitution, but was rejected by the Proprietors, and 
the Negotiations fell to the Ground. 

The publick Library had been commenced, and 
although the Litereft therein {lumbered for a 
While, it was not entirely forgotten. On the 
3 1 ft of OcStober, 1849, Hon. Robert C. Winthrop 
gave one hundred and eighty-feven Volumes of 
bound publick Documents to the City. The Let- 
ter of Mayor Bigelow, acknowledging this Dona- 
tion, which we republifli in this Connecflion, is 
brief, but pointed, and gives to Mr. Winthrop the 
Credit of laying the firft American Stone to the 
free Library. 

About the fame Time two hundred and nineteen 
Volumes were received from John D. W. Wil- 
liams, Efq., of Roxbury, and other limilar Contri- 
butions from a Number of other Perfons foon fol- 
lowed. 

The next Step in the Formation of the Library 
was the one which gave the Projecfl an Impulfc 
that completely overcame the previous Inertia. To 
the Hon. John P. Bigelow, then Mayor of the 
City, is undoubtedly due the Credit of having been 



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the iirft to put the free pubUck Library upon a 
fure Foundation. In the Summer of 1850, many 
of the Friends of Mayor Bigelow united to raife a 
Sum of Money for the Purchafe of a Vafe to pre- 
fent to him as a Teftimonial of their Refped: for 
his pubUck Charad:er and Services. Mr. Bigelow, 
anticipating the Purchafe of the Vafe, requefted 
that in Lieu thereof the Sum be contributed to- 
wards the Eftablifliment of a pubhck Library. On 
the 5th of Augull, Mr. Bigelow, with the Confent 
of the Donors, tendered the Amount ($1000), to 
the city Government, in a Letter, from which the 
following is an Extrad: : 

" The Want of fuch an Inftitution in our Midfl 
is generally acknowledged. It has an important 
profpedive Bearing upon the moral and intellecftual 
Chara6ler of the People of Boflon, and I have 
Reafon to know that there are many Perfons in this 
Community who are ready to tender valuable Offer- 
ings for the Purpofe in View, as loon as it Ihall be 
known that the city Government is willing to re- 
ceive fuch Donations." 

The generous Donation of Mr. Bigelow was 
gratefully accepted, and the Committee of the city 
Government on the Library was directed to " pro- 
ceed with as little Delay as poffible, and as far as the 
Means in their Hands would juftify, to carry into 
EfFea the Eftabliaiment of a Free Publick Library." 
Two Days fubfequently, on the 7th of Auguft, the 
Hon. Edward Everett tendered to the city Govern- 
ment his large Colled:ion of Publick Documents, 



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the Contributions alluded to by Mr. Bigelow in 
his Letter to Mr. Winthrop in 1849. This Con- 
tribution was exceedingly valuable. It conlifted of 
publick Documents and State Papers, in all to the 
Number of one thoufand bound Volumes. Mr. 
Everett ftated in his Letter that he had devoted a 
great Deal of Time, Labor and Expenfe in colled:- 
ing thofe Documents. The Volumes embrace the 
moft important Documents from the Foundation 
of the Federal Government down to the Year 1 840. 
In this Letter Mr. Everett ftrongly urged the Im- 
portance of erecting a Building for the publick 
Library, and faid : 

" Such a Library would put the finifhing Hand 
to that Syftem of Education which lies at the Bafis 
of the Profperity of Bofton, and, with her benevo- 
lent Inftitutions, gives her fo much of her Name 
and Praife in the Land." 

The city Council accepted this Donation, and voted 
to receive the Volumes whenever a fuitable Place 
fhould be provided in which to depolit them. On 
the 7th of June, 1851, Mr. Everett tranfmitted the 
Volumes to the city Council, accompanying them 
with a Catalogue, and with another Letter, in 
which he again urged the Ered:ion of a fuitable 
Building for a publick Library. The Liberality of 
Mr. Everett was foon imitated by feveral other 
publick fpirited Citizens, who prefented many 
valuable Volumes to the Library. 

Early in 1852, the Hon. Benjamin Seaver, Mayor 
of the City, in his inaugural Addrefs again called 



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the Attention of the city Council to the Free 
Pubhc Library. His Remarks were referred to the 
joint Standing Committee on the Library, who, in 
conformity with his Recommendations, reported, 
April 29, in favor of choofing five Citizens at large, 
who, with the joint Committee of the city Council, 
fhould conftitute a Board of Truftees. They alfo 
recommended the immediate Appointment of a 
Librarian, in accordance with which Recommend- 
ation the prefent Librarian, Edward Capen, was 
eledled on the 13th of May, the Board of Truftees 
being chofen on the 24th of the fame Month. 

One of the firft Adis of the Board of Truftees 
was to report in accordance with Inftrucftions from 
the Common Council, " upon the Objed:s to be 
attained by the Eftabliftiment of a publick Library, 
and the beft Mode of eiFediing them." This Re- 
port was drawn up by Mr. Everect, and was an able 
and forcible Paper, fetting forth in glowing Lan- 
guage the Advantages of the publick Library, dif- 
cufling a Plan for its Formation, fhowing the 
feveral Clafles of Books which ought to be com- 
prifed in fuch a Library, and conlidering fome of 
the Details of the Plan of Organization. The 
Truftees did not deem it expedient to recommend, 
in the exifting State of the Finances of the City, an 
Appropriation for the Erection of a Building, but 
conceived that there were Advantages in a more 
gradual Courfe of Meafures, in the Continuance of 
fuch moderate and frugal Expenditures on the Part 
of the City as had been already authorized and 



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commenced for the Purchafe of Books and the 
Compenfation of the Librarian. In order, how- 
ever, to put the Library into Operation with the 
leail: poffible Delay, the Truftees propofed to the 
city Government to appropriate for this Purpofe 
the ground Floor of the Adams School-houfe in 
Mafon Street. This Recommendation was adopted, 
and foon after the Rooms ftill occupied by the 
Library were opened for the Reception of Books. 
In September of the fame Year Samuel Appleton, 
Efq. enclofed to Mayor Seaver a Check for $i,ooo, 
to be devoted to the Purchafe of Books for the 
Library. 

But the Free Publick Library thus humbly, 
though fucceflfully commenced, had yet in ftore a 
Donation which was at once to place it upon a 
liberal Foundation, and to eftablifh its Ufefulnefs 
upon a fure Bafis. At about the Time the firll 
Report of the Board of Truftees, above alluded to, 
was iffued, the city Government were engaged in 
negotiating a Loan with the Houfe of Baring Bro- 
thers & Co. Mayor Seaver tranfmitted among 
other Documents to Jofliua Bates, Efq., a Native 
of Bofton and a Member of that Firm, a Copy of 
the Report of the Library Truftees. On the ift 
of Odober, 1852, Mr. Bates addrelfed a Letter to 
Mayor Seaver, Ifating that he had perufed the Re- 
port with great Intereft, "being impreifed with 
the Importance to the Rifmg and the future Genera- 
tions oi fuch a Library as is recommended." In 
order to accelerate its Accomplilhment, and efla- 



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blifh the Library at once on a Scale which would 
do Credit to the City, Mr. Bates tendered the Sum 
of $50,000 for the Purchafe of Books. This mu- 
nificent Offer was promptly accepted by the city 
Government, and on the loth of March, 1853, 
Mr. Bates wrote to Mayor Seaver, authorizing him 
to draw on him. ''for a Sum fufficient to contribute 
a Fund of fifty thoufand Dollars, to be held by the 
City of Bofton in Trufl," upon the following Con- 
ditions : 

"That its entire Income, but only its Income, 
fball in each and every Year hereafter be expended 
in the Purchafe of fuch Books of permanent Value 
and Authority as may be found moft needed and 
moft ufeful, and that the City will, fo foon as it 
may conveniently be done, provide, and always 
hereafter maintain a fuitable Eftablilliment for a 
Free Publick Library, in which Arrangements fhall 
be made for the comfortable Accommodation at 
one and the fame Time, and at all proper Hours 
of the Day and Evening, for at leaft one hundred 
Readers." 

In accordance with a Vote of the city Council, 
the Mayor drew upon Mr. Bates for the Sum of 
$50,000, which was Invefted in the city Bonds as 
a permanent Fund for the Increafe of the Library. 
The Fund was foon after increafed by another 
munificent Donation from one of the moft wealthy 
and diftinguifhed Citizens of Bofton, the Hon, Jona- 
than Phillips, who on the i ith of April, 1853, in 
a Letter to the Mayor and Aldermen, offered for 



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the Acceptance of the City of Bofton, in Aid of 
their city Library, the Sum of ten thoufand Dol- 
lars — 

"to be forever held and treated as a truft 

Fund ; the Income of which fliall be ufed exclu- 
lively for the Purchafe of Books for faid Library, 
and if from any Caufe whatever there fhall at any 
Time happen a Diminution of the Capital, then 
the Licome is to accumulate, and be added to the 
Capital, until its original Amount fhall be entirely 
reftored." 

This Donation was inverted in like Manner as 
that of Mr. Bates, and thefe two Donations, with 
that of Mr. Bigelow — in all $61,000 — conftitute a 
permanent Fund, yielding an annual Income of 
$3,660 for the gradual Increafe of the Library. 
To this the City has added annually a liberal Sum. 
An Addition to the permanent Fund of the Library 
to the Amount of $10,000, will probably foon be 
realized from the liberal Bequefl of the Hon. Ab- 
bot Lawrence, which is to be paid within three 
Years of the Probate of his Will. 

The Free Publick Library has had many other 
liberal Benefad:ors befides thole whofe munificent 
Donations have founded the Library upon a per- 
manent Bafis. Among thefe may be mentioned 
the lamented James Brown, who contributed $500, 
James Nightengale, $100, J. Ingerfoll Bowditch, 
$300, N. I. Bowditch, $200, a"nd Mrs. S. I. K. 
Shepard, $1,000. 

C)n the 24th of February, 1853, an Order was 



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pafTed by the city Council, authorizing the Com- 
mittee on the Library, in Conference with the 
Board of Truftees, to purchafe a fuitable Site for 
the Erection of a Building which ihould be fully 
adapted to the Purpofes of the Library and fulfill 
the Conditions of the Donation of Mr. Bates. 
Accordingly the Committee purchafed an Eftate 
on Somerfet Street, which, as not being fufficiently 
central, was fubfequently fold, and four very eligi- 
ble Lots were purchafed on Boylfton Street and Van 
Renlfelaer Place, upon which the Edifice repre- 
fented in the Cut, has been ered:ed. 

The Building is in the Roman Style of Archi- 
ted:ure, the Exteriour being quite plain, with the 
Exception of the Front, being conflruded of 
faced Brick, with Connedticut free-ftone Dreffing. 
It fhows two Stories high in Front. The Bafe- 
ment, which is quite light and airy, is nearly all 
below the Grade of Boylflon Street. The Build- 
ing is rectangular, 8 2 Feet wide, by 116 Feet 
long, with two Towers 142 by 1 8 Feet, one at each 
Corner. The Bafement is 1 1 Feet high, the firfl 
Story 2 1 2 Feet, and the fecond or principal Story 
52 Feet. The firfl Floor is divided into five Apart- 
ments by brick Walls, defignated as follows : Veili- 
bule, Converfation and Delivery Room, General 
Reading Room, Special Reading Room (for La- 
dies), and Circulating Library Room. 

A fpacious Entrance through three Sets of richly 
carved oak Doors leads to the Veilibule, which oc- 
cupies the central Portion of the Front of the 
Cc 



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Building, and which is 22 Feet wide by 44 Feet 
deep, and 22 Feet high. The Veftibule con- 
tains the main Stair-cafe, which commences in two 
Parts, one fix Feet wide on each Side, both land- 
ing upon a Platform at an Elevation of ten Feet, 
and thence converging into one Flight, ten Feet 
wide, to the main Hall. The Converfation Room, 
which is entered from the Foot of the Veftibule, 
occupies the central Portion of the eaft Side of the 
Building on the iirft Story, and is 34 Feet wide, 
by 50 Feet deep, and 12 Feet high. This 
Room forms a Kind of inner Veftibule, with deli- 
very Counters for the Circulating Library, and 
Entrances to the Special and General Reading 
Rooms. It is finifhed quite plain, with marble 
Floor, and Walls and Ceilings laid off in panel 
Work. The Special Reading Room, for Ladies, 
occupies the northeaft front Corner of the Build- 
ing, and is 27 Feet wide by 44 Feet deep, and 
21 i Feet high. It is intended to accommodate 
one hundred Readers, having fix circular Tables 
furrounding the elaborately ornamented iron Co- 
lumns, which fupport the Ceiling. The Walls and 
Ceiling are taftefully laid off in panel Work, ex- 
quifitely tinted and gilded. The Floor is of Mar- 
ble, like nearly all the Floors throughout the Build- 
ing, the iron Columns refting upon Bafes of fine 
Italian Marble. The Arrangements for lighting 
this and all the Rooms are complete and ample, 
and the Gaf-fixtures are Models of Neatnefs and 
Appropriatenefs. The General Reading Room is 



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in the north weft Corner of the Building. It is 28 
Feet wide by 78 Feet deep, and of the fame Height 
with the fpecial Reading-room. It is alfo limilarly 
furnifhed, and will accommodate two hundred 
Readers. 

The Circulating Library Room occupies the 
Remainder of the firft Floor, being upon the fouth 
End. It is 78 Feet wide by 34 Feet deep. It is 
fhelved for forty thoufand Volumes. The Decora- 
tions are very few. It is plainly finiftied, with iron 
Balconies, and circular Stairs, and connects with 
the Bafement and upper Parts of the Building by 
an iron Staircafe in the eaft Tower, and with the 
main Hall by a circular iron Staircafe. It is alfo in 
Communication with the main Hall by Means of 
Dumb-waiters. Leading from this Room there 
are in the weft Tower two Rooms for the Librarian 
and Aftiftants. There is alfo a Room belonging to 
this Floor, diredily over the Converfation Room, an 
Apartment for Stowage of Books, 9 Feet high in 
clear, and 34 Feet fquare. 

The entire upper Story is occupied by the fplen- 
did main Hall and Library. This Hall has a clear 
Space of 38 Feet wide, by 92 Feet deep, and 58 
Feet high, furrounded by three Stories of Alcoves, 
thirty arranged on each Side, 9 by 14 Feet in clear, 
and 1 2 Feet high, each with three Stories of Cor- 
ridors on each End to correfpond with the Alcoves 
in Height, and finifhed in the Roman- Corinthian, 
ornate Style. The Partitions between the Alcoves 
are faced with three-quarters Diameter, full, rich 



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Corinthian Columns, ftanding upon Pedeftals of 
the heft Italian Marble, highly poliflied. The 
Columns, Capitals, Bafes and Pedeftals, occupy- 
nearly the Height of the three Stories of Alcoves, 
and fupport femi-circular Arches with rich Archi- 
vaults, Keyftones, &c., which in turn fupport a full, 
rich Corinthian Cornice, without Architrave, 
whereon refts the Lantern. The Lantern is finifhed 
with coved Angles, having perpendicular circle- 
headed Windows, with Arches interfediing the 
coved Angles, and feparated by heavy Ribs fupport- 
ing a deep -funk diamond panel Ceiling, relieved 
with rich carved Mouldings, pendant Drops, &c. 
The Floor of the clear Space is of Marble, and that 
of the Alcoves is of fouthern Pine, bedded in Ce- 
ment, on brick Arches. The Alcoves on the main 
Floor are fhelved for Books, in accordance with the 
decimal Syftem propofed by Dr. N. B. Shurtleff, 
having ten Shelves, in Height, divided into ten 
Spaces in Length, making one hundred Spaces in 
each Alcove. The Shelves are of Wood, covered 
with a fire-proof Solution of Glafs, &c. Each Al- 
cove, belides being lighted from the clear Space, is 
alfo illuminated by a Skylight diredlly from the 
Roof, and the rear End of the Alcove being con- 
ftrud:ed in a V Ihape, leaves no dark Corner. The 
Alcoves on the firft Floor are prote(fted by iron 
Railings in Front from the Publick, and have Open- 
ings between each for the PalTage of the Librarians, 
and alfo four Flights of circular iron Stairs, con- 
nedling with the two Tiers of Galleries. The 



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grand Hall is one of the moft beautiful in the 
Country, and for perfect Proportion, Neatnefs of 
Colour, and exquilite Tafte of Decoration, can 
hardly be furpaffed the World over. 

The Building occupied about two and a half Years 
in Conftrudtion, and coft, including the Finiili- 
ings, $247,051. The Land and Preparation coft 
$116,582, making a Total of $363,633. It 
was conftrudied from Deligns by, and under the 
Superintendence of Charles K. Kirby, whofe Plan 
was feledted from among twenty-four prefented by 
Bofton Architects in Anfwer to an Advertifement 
by the Commiffioners. The corner Stone of the 
Stru(5lure was laid by the Mayor of the City, on 
the 17th of September, 1855; and on the ift of 
January, 1858, the new Building was dedicated, 
with appropriate Ceremonies. Addreftes were de- 
livered by Hon. Robert C. Winthrop, his Honour 
Mayor Rice, and Hon. Edward Everett. 

As foon as Information was received by Mr. 
Bates, in London, that the Erection of a Library 
was commenced, he addreffed a Communication to 
the Mayor, lignifying his Wiih, in order to ren- 
der the Library immediately and generally ufeful to 
the Publick, in addition to the Sum of $50,000 
originally given by him, to purchafe a conlider- 
able Number of Books in the various Departments 
of Science and Literature, and to prefent them to 
the City for the publick Library. This new and 
moft liberal Offer was gratefully accepted, and in 



accordance with the Requeft of Mr. Bates, the 
Truftees, with the fpecial Afliftance of Prof Jewett 
and a Number of literary and fcientific Gentlemen 
of known Eminence, prepared, with great Care, 
Lifts of Works in various Departments of Know- 
ledge, which they deemed moft important for the 
Library. The Number of Volumes thus indicated 
amounted to 35,000, and the Lifts, after having 
been carefully revifed, were tranfmitted to the 
Agents of Mr. Bates in London, Paris, Leipfic and 
Florence. The Books were procured and for- 
warded with great Promptnefs. The firft Arrival 
was in May, 1856. In lefs than a Year and a half 
142 Boxes had been received, containing 21,374 
Volumes, the Coft of which, according to the Li- 
voices, was $38,893. Others are conftantly arriv- 
ing, and it is probable that the aggregate money 
Value of this munificent Donation of Mr. Bates, 
will equal the Amount originally contributed by 
him as a permanent Fund for the Ufe of the Li- 
brary. The city Government has very properly 
provided that a Buft of Mr. Bates, in Marble or 
Bronze, fhall be placed in the publick library 
Building, as an enduring Memorial of the city's 
Obligation and Gratitude. 

It ftiould be mentioned in this Connecftion that 
George Ticknor, Efq-, one of the Truftees, vifited 
Europe in 1856, to confer with and render fuch 
Aftiftance as might be defirable to Mr. Bates in 
carrying out his noble Purpofe. He not only 



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made Arrangements perfonally for the Purchafes in 
the German and ItaHan Departments, but eftablifli- 
ed Agencies, fecured the good Offices of fome of 
the moft accomplifhed Librarians and Bibhograph- 
ers of Europe, and in other Ways materially fub- 
ferved the Interefls of the Library. The Books 
received from Europe were placed in the Care 
of ProfelTor C. C. Jewett, formerly Librarian of 
the Smithfonian Inftitute, under whofe Super- 
vifion they have been catalogued and arranged upon 
the Shelves. 

The acftive Operations of the Library have been 
attended with great Succefs. On the 20th of 
March, 1854, the Books then compriiing the Li- 
brary, which had been temporarily placed in the 
lower Story of the Building of the Normal School, 
in Mafon Street, were offered to the Publick for 
Ufe in the Reading-room attached to the Library ; 
and on the 2d of May following, the Books were 
firft circulated among the Citizens for home Ufe — 
a Privilege which has been continued to the prefent 
Time, wjth the Exception of fhort Periods, when 
the Library has been clofed for the ufual annual 
Examination. 

In November, 1857, when the laft Examination 
of the Library was made by a Committee, in com- 
pliance with a Requilition of the library Ordinance, 
the Number of Volumes appertaining to the Inftitu- 
tion (including the Books received from the lafl: 
liberal Donation of Mr. Bates), amounted to about 



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56,000; to which iliould be added 16,000 or 
more Pamphlets. The Number of Books at the 
prefent Time is about 65,000. 

During the Time that the Library has been open 
to the Pubhck, the Books have been very actively 
circulated. In the Aggregate, about 90,000 Vo- 
lumes a Year have been delivered to Borrowers for 
home Ufe; and on one Occalion the large Number 
of 730 Volumes were lent in a fmgle Day. 

Thus have been Iketched fomewhat at Length, 
the leading Events in the Hiftory of the Rife and 
Progrefs of the Free Public Library of Bofton. 
The Inftitution is one of which her Citizens have 
every Reafon to be proud. It is the Culmination of 
that great educational Structure of which the pri- 
mary Schools are the foundation Stones. Rifmg in 
regular Gradation therefrom are the Grammar 
Schools, the Latin School, the Englifli High School, 
the Normal School for Girls, and the Free Public 
Library. The Children of the City are received at 
the Portals of this Edifice, inftrud:ed in the very 
Elements of Learning, then condu(5ted Step by Step 
to the higher Branches, until they become fitted 
for the active Duties of Life, and to become good 
and ufeful Citizens, when the Departments of Sci- 
ence, of Art and of Literature are freely thrown 
open to them, in the rich Stores of Learning which 
are treafured upon the Shelves of the publick Li- 
brary. May the Intereft which is now felt in this 
excellent Inftitution continue unabated, and may it 



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go on indefinitely in its Work of gathering that 
which is better than Riches and more precious than 
Gold. 

Charles C. Jewett, A. M., Superintendent. 
Edward Capen, Librarian. 

Note. — The foregoing Account has been taken mainly from the Bofton 
Journal, and Bofton Courier, with flight Alterations and Changes. 




REDWOOD LIBRARY. 



Dd 



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IMPERIAL LIBRARY AT PARIS. 

825,000 Vols. 

THE Imperial Library at Paris is juftly con- 
fidered as the iineft in the World. It was 
commenced under the Reign of King John, 
who poflelTed only 20 Volumes ; but the Number 
was fo increafed by his Succeffor, Charles V., who 
conftru(5led a Library in one of the Towers of the 
Louvre, that, at his Death in 1380, they amounted, 
according to Le Prince, to 910 Volumes, feveral of 
them fuperbly illuminated by John of Bruges, the 
beft Artift in Miniatures of that Time. This pre- 
cious Colled:ion was nearly deftroyed during the 
Troubles in the Reign of Charles VII. ; but what 
remained was recovered and greatly improved by 
Charles VIII., who added to it the choice Books, 
ftill to be identified by the curious Vifitor, which 
he carried off to France, after the Conquefi: of Na- 
ples. Francis I. united it in 1544 with that of 
Fontainbleau, which had been enriched by valuable 
Greek Manufcripts brought from the Eaft. Henri 
IV. was alfo a munificent Benefad:or. He ap- 
pointed the celebrated Hiftorian De Thou, to be 
Keeper ; brought the Royal Library back to Paris, 
after an Abfence of nearly a Century (it had been 
removed to Blois before its Tranffer to Fontain- 
bleau) ; and added to it, the fine Colledtion of Man- 
ufcripts, — more than 800 in Number, and chiefly 
Greek — which had been formed by Catherine de 
Medicis. From this Period the Royal Library 
continued to receive conftant Accefiions. In 1684 



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it polTelTed 50,547 Volumes ; at the Death of Louis 
XIV., upwards of 70,000; in 1775 it amounted to 
150,000; and by 1790 it had increafed to about 
200,000. Then came the enormous, and for a long 
Time the almoft chaotick Acceffions which accrued 
from the revolutionary Coniifcations. At prefent 
it contains about 825,000 printed Volumes, 85,000 
Volumes of Manuscripts, 300,000 Charters and 
Deeds, and 500,000 Pamphlets or Trails. 

In 1667, Louis XIV., having ordered all the 
Medals and Curiofities contained in the royal Refi- 
dences to be colle6ted together, caufed them to be 
depofited in this Library. Learned Antiquarians, 
fent into foreign Countries, augmented this Col- 
le6i:ion; rare and precious Objects were fucceffively 
acquired ; and the Library at prefent polTefTes the 
richeft and moft varied Colle(5lion that exifls in 
Europe. The Cabinet of Engravings, alfo founded 
by Louis XIV., is compofed of Paintings on Vellum, 
Drawings, and an immenfe Collection of Prints, 
from the Difcovery of Engraving to the prefent 
Time. It contains more than 1,500,000, arranged 
in about 1 2,000 Volumes and Portfolios. In thefe 
Numbers is included a noble Series of Portraits, 
exceeding 60,000, arranged as far as poffible, in 
chronological Order. A fecond and ftill larger 
Collediion of Portraits, formed by the Debures — 
nearly 67,000 in Number — has been recently pur- 
chafed, and arranged in alphabetical Order. Large 
Sele(ftions of Prints are conflantly exhibited to all 
Comers, under Glafs. 



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The Imperial Library is at prefent divided into 
the following Departments, viz: ift. Printed Books; 
2d. Manufcripts, Charters and Deeds ; 3d. Coins, 
Medals, engraved Stones, and other antique Mon- 
uments; 4th. Engravings; 5th. Maps, Charts and 
Plans. Thefe five Departments form five diftind: 
Eftabliihments, w^hich, by their Importance and the 
Richnefs of their Treafures, exceed everything of 
the Kind that is, as yet, to be found in other Coun- 
tries. A Decree of 1556, which fell, or partially 
fell, into Difufe during the Troubles of the Fronde, 
was renewed in 1689, impofed on Publifhers the 
Obligation of furnifhing to the Library of the King, 
Copies of all Works printed with Copyright ; and 
each Copy was required to be bound. At prefent 
the Law prefcribes the Depofit of Copies of all 
Books (as well as Maps and Engravings) printed; 
but the Condition requiring them to be bound is 
difpenfed with. The yearly Increafe from this 
Source alone is flated to be 12,000 Volumes. 

The Additions from the Vatican Library, feled:ed 
by the French Commifhoners in 1797, were par- 
ticularly valuable, amounting to 501 Manufcripts. 
Of thele, 20 were Hebrew ; 40 Syriac ; 1 9 Coptic; 
II Chinefe; 133 Greek, amongft which was the 
celebrated Codex Vaticanus of the Septuagint; 
176 Latin, including the famous Virgil, Terence, 
Horace, Casfar, Plautus, and other ancient clafTical 
Manufcripts ; befides many other Manufcripts illuf- 
trative of the ninth and tenth Centuries. Nume- 
rous Manufcripts in modern Languages were alfo 



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leized in virtue of the compulfory Treaty of To- 
lentino, particularly the Comedia of Dante, tranf- 
cribed by Boccaccio, the Arcadia of Sannazaro, 
Michael Angelo's Letters, and alfo thofe of 
Henry VIII. and Anne Boleyn; befides 136 early 
printed Books, 13 Etrufcan Vafes, and 737 ancient 
Coins. To thefe were added the Manufcripts and 
early printed Books coUedied by the French in 
other Parts of Europe, to which their vidiorious 
Eagles had penetrated. But the Events of 18 14 
and 1 8 1 5 were followed by a large Reftitution of 
the literary Treafures, as well as of the Works of 
Art, acquired by Right, or rather by Abufe, of Con- 
queft. Of the Contents of this magnificent Col- 
lection, it would be impoffible, in a Sketch like 
this, to give anything like Details. It is rich in 
every Branch and Department, unique in fome, 
and as a whole unrivalled. Of Books printed upon 
Vellum, it contains 1467, being the fineft and moil 
extenfive Collediion in the World. The total Num- 
ber of Books of this Sort extant does not exceed 
2700. Lord Spencer's Collection, which is the 
richeft in Great Britain, only contains 108. The 
following are a few of the literary and artiftick 
Treafures accumulated in the Library, defcribed by 
Dr. Dibdin, in his Bibliographical Tour in France 
and Germany, Volume II. 

I. Manufcripts. Latin Bible of Charles the Bald. 
A magnificent folio Volume, depofited in the Li- 
brary by Baluze, the head Librarian to Colbert. 
Book of the Gofpels of the Emperor Lotharius, 



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executed in the Year 855, and among the moft 
precious Specimens of early Art in the Colledion. 
On the Cover are the royal Arms. Pfalterium, 
Latine, 8°. The Religious Manual of St. Louis. 
It is in wooden Covers, wrapped in red Velvet. 
The Vellum is Angularly foft, and of its original 
pure Tint. Hiftorical Paraphrafe of the Bible. 
Latin and French. Folio. Containing according 
to Camus in his Notices et Extraits, Vol. VI, up- 
wards of 5000 Illuminations. Such a Work could 
not now, in his Eftimation, be executed under 
100,000 Francs. Evangelium Sti Johannis. A 
fmall oblong folio Manufcript of the Eleventh 
Century, bound in red Velvet. It is executed in 
large coarfe Gothick and Roman Letters of Gold. 
Breviary of John, Duke of Bedford. " The laft, 
and by much the moft fplendid Illumination in this 
Breviary, is the AlTumption of the Virgin, for 
which the Artifts of the Middle Age, and efpe- 
cially the old Illuminators, feem to have referved 
all their Powers, and upon which they lavilhed all 
their Stock of Gold, Ultramarine and Carmine." 
This Breviary is one of the moft minute, elaborate 
and dazzling Works of the Kind extant. Hors 
Beatas Maris Virginis. A fmall Folio. One of 
the moft fuperb and beautiful Books, of its Clafs, in 
the Library. Hours of Anne of Brittany. " Of 
all the Volumes in this moft marvellous Library, 
this is deemed the moft precious." It meafures 
12 Inches by 7I. Cite de Dieu. 2 Vols. Folio. 
Magnificent Shew Books, fimilar in Size and Style 



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of Art, to the Manufcript of Valerius Maximus, 
in the Britifli Mufeum. Tite-Live. Folio. A 
noble Manufcript of the 15th Century, L'Hif- 
toire Romaine, 3 Vols. Folio. Among the Shew 
Books. The Binding is gorgeous, and in a fine 
State of Prefervation. Royal Biography of France. 
Folio. The Nonpareil of its Kind, being a Book 
of Portraits, with intermixed Illuminations. Lan- 
celot du Lac, Triftan, Le Roy Artus, Roman de la 
Rofe, and other Romances. A Book of Tourna- 
ments. Folio. A marvellous Volume in a perfe(5t 
Blaze of Splendour. 

2. Fiurly Printed Books. Horas Beats Virginis, 
Greek. Printed by Aldus. 1497. ^2°- "Perhaps 
the rareft Aldine Volume in the World, when found 
in a perfed: State." There are only ten known 
perfeSi Copies of this Book, of which fix are in 
England. The Shyppe of Fooles. Printed by 
Wynkyn de Worde. 1509. 8°. A far famed 
Volume, upon Vellum, bound in red Morocco. 
Pfalterium, Latine. Printed by Fufl and Schoiif her. 
1457. Folio. Editio Princeps. Bought at the 
M'Carthy Sale for 12,000 Francs. Only {qsqw 
Copies of it known in the World. Biblia Latina. 
(Suppofed to have been printed in 1455.) Folio. 
This is the famous Edition called the Mazarine 
Bible, upon which Bibliographers have prepared fo 
many Difquifitions. This Copy, which is upon 
Paper, is the Copy of all Copies. Durandi Ration- 
ale Div. Off. Printed by Fufl and Schoiffher. 
1459. Folio. Biblia Latina. Printed by Pfifler, 



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at Bamberg, 1461. 3 Vols. Folio. The rareft of 
all Latin Bibles, when found in a perfedt State. 
Sts. Auguftinus de Civitate Dei. Printed in the 
Soubiaco Monaflery. 1467. Folio. " A fine Copy 
of this refplendent Volume, which is truly among 
the Mafter-pieces of early Printing." Grammatica 
Rhythmica. Printed by Fuft and Schoiffher. 1466. 
Folio. This very meagre little Folio, confifting of 
but eleven Leaves, was bought at the Sale of Car- 
dinal Lomenie's Library for three thoufand three 
hundred Livres. There is but one other known 
Copy of it in the World. Vocabularius. Printed 
by Bechtermuntze. 1467. Quarto. Editio Prin- 
ceps. One of the rareft Books in the World. 
Virgilius. Printed by Sweynheym and Pannartz. 

1469. Folio. Editio Princeps. "The enormous 
Worth and Rarity of this exceedingly precious Vol- 
ume may be eftimated from this very Copy having 
been purchafed, at the Sale of the Duke de la Val- 
liere's Library, in 1783, ^or four thoufand one hun- 
dred and one Livres.'' Virgilius. Printed by Vinde- 
lin de Spira. 1470. Upon Vellum. Plinii Hift. 
Naturalis. Printed by J. de Spira. 1469. Folio. 
Editio Princeps. A beautiful Book-gem upon 
Vellum. Livius. Printed by Vindelin de Spira. 

1470. Folio. A magnificent Copy in two Vol- 
umes, upon Vellum. ** I know that 500 Guineas 
were once offered for a Copy of this moft extra- 
ordinary Book. — Dibdin. Boccaccio II Decame- 
rone. Printed by Valdarfer. 1471. Folio. The 
famous Edition of the more famous Copy fold at 



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the Sale of the Duke of Roxburghe's Library for 
£2,260. Homeri Opera. Greek. 1488. Folio. 
Editio Princeps. Croniques de France. Printed by 
Verard. i493- 3 ^o^s. Folio. Upon Vellum. 
Coloured wood Cuts, red morocco Binding. 

Hitherto there has been no complete Catalogue 
of the Imperial Library. That of Labbe, printed 
in 1653, in quarto, treats of fome Manufcripts, 
which are divided into hiftorical and chronological, 
biblical and theological, epiftolary and diplomatick, 
technical and philological. Anicet Melot's Cata- 
logue of the Manufcripts in the Royal Library was 
printed at Paris, 1739-44, in 4 Volumes. Folio. 
The firft Volume contains the oriental Manufcripts ; 
the fecond the Greek ; and the third and fourth 
the Latin. Belides thefe, the Colledion has fur- 
nifhed the Materials for a Work, publiflied in fuc- 
cellive Volumes, by the Academy of Infcriptions, 
under the Title of Notices et Extraits des Manuf- 
crits de la Bibliotheque du Roi (or Nationale) et 
autres Bibliotheques. The firfl: Volume, quarto, 
is dated 1787, the feventeenth, 1851. This, 
however, is rather a CoUeftion of Diflertations, 
and Defcriptions of particular Manufcripts, than a 
defcriptive Catalogue. The French Manufcripts 
are defcribed with great Accuracy, by M. Paulin 
Paris, in his Work, Les Manufcrits Francois de la 
Bibliotheque du Roi. 7 Vols. 8°. Paris, 1836-48. 

Of the printed Books in the then Royal Library, 
there appeared a Catalogue compiled by the Abbes 
Sallier, Boudot, Capperonnier, and others, in 6 Vols. 



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Folio. Paris. 1739-50. It contains only the ClafTes 
Theology, Belles-Lettres, and a Part of Jurilpru- 
dence. After the Lapfe of a Century, the Want of 
a general Catalogue having been felt, the Deficiency 
is about to be fupplied, by Dire6tion of the prefent 
Emperor. The Tafk has been undertaken with 
Energy and carried on with an Amount of Succefs 
worthy of the Colled:ions which have accumulated. 
The new Catalogue commences with the Clafs of 
French Hiftory. It is printed in large quarto, in 
double Columns, the Books chronologically ar- 
ranged under the different Reigns or Periods of 
Government. The three Volumes already pub- 
lifhed, 1855-6, according to an Enumeration pre- 
fixed, include 45,729 Articles. The fourth Volume, 
which completes the Clafs, is in the Prefs. This 
will foon be followed by other ClafTes or Divifions. 
The Building in which this vafl Collection is 
depofited is the immenfe Hotel formerly occupied 
by Cardinal Mazarin, embracing the entire Space 
between the Rue Vivienne, Rue Richelieu, Rue 
Neuve des Petits Champs, and Rue Colbert. It is 
deftitute of all external Ornament, and of a dark 
and dingy Tint. Its Length is 540 Feet, its Breadth 
130 Feet; its total Surface, including the Courts, 
is 152,853 fquare Feet. The Interiour is occupied 
by a Court, 300 Feet in Length by 90 in Breadth, 
furrounded with Buildings prefenting two Styles of 
Architedlure, one that of the ancient Hotel de 
Nevers, the other of a more modern Date. At 
the Extremity is a fmall Garden, with a Statue of 



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Charles V. and a Fountain. The annual Sum 
allowed for the Support of the Imperial Library is 
about $80,000. Except on Sundays and Holidays, 
it is open daily from ten until three o'Clock. Every 
Book that can be found is brought to Applicants ; 
and literary Men of known Refpe6tability are per- 
mitted to take Books to their own Relidences. 

Note. — The above Fafts are gathered from the Encyclopaedia Britan- 
nica, with Additions and Changes. 




VIEW OF THE FRANKFORT CITY LIBRARY. 



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ROYAL LIBRARY AT MUNICH. 

600,000 Vols. 

THIS Library, founded about 1660, by Al- 
bert v., Duke of Bavaria, is the moft ex- 
tenfive Collection in Germany, ranking in 
Size and Importance next to the Bibliotheque Na- 
tionale of Paris. It contains about 600,000 Vol- 
umes of printed Books, belides upwards of 100,000 
Volumes of Duplicates, which were recently on 
Sale, and 22,000 Volumes of Manufcripts. From 
a Difcourfe on the Origin and Increafe of the 
Library, delivered in 1784, by Steigenberger, the 
Librarian (and tranflated into Latin by Vitali), it 
appears that the Hebrew, Arabick, Syriack, Greek, 
and Latin Manufcripts, which it contained, formed 
even then a precious Treafure. Since that Period 



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vail: Additions have been made to all Departments 
of the Colledion. 

The Library, which formerly occupied a College 
that had belonged to the Jefuits, is now removed to a 
magnificent new Building, in the Style of a mediaeval 
Italian Palace, which was commenced in 1822 and 
completed in 1 842. It is lituated in Ludwig Street, 
and is ealily recognifed by four Statues of Ariftotle, 
Thucydides, Hippocrates and Homer, placed upon 
the Steps before the principal Entrance. 

From the ground Floor, where the general Ar- 
chives of the Kingdom are preferved, a magnificent 
Staircafe afcends between two marble Colonnades 
to the Library. The Entrance to the firft Library- 
room is adorned with two Statues, one of the 
Founder of the Library, Duke Albert V., the other 
of Louis I., to whom the Building is due. This 
is the Hall from whence Books are loaned. After 
this is a large Hall, devoted to the Purpofe of 
Reading and Study, and open to the Publick 
daily, from eight o' Clock until one, except on Fete- 
days and Holidays. A feparate Hall, affigned to 
the Reading of periodical Reviews, and of literary 
and fcientifick Journals, is referved for Members of 
the Academy and for ProfeiTors in the Univerfity. 
The loaning of Books is reftridied to thefe Perfons 
juft mentioned, to publick Officers of at leaffc the 
Rank of Counfellor, and Refident in Munich, and 
to Perfons who obtain fpecial Permiffion from the 
Minifter of the Interiour. Books are delivered be- 
tween nine o' Clock and one. Vifitors at the 



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Library are not allowed to go to the Shelves where 
the Books are arranged, without being accompanied 
by one of the Librarians. For the Gratification of 
Strangers, however, a large Number of the rareft 
and moil curious Books and Manufcripts are dif- 
played in glafs Cafes, where they can be conven- 
iently feen. 

The Library has no Collecftion of Coins, Medals, 
Statues, Paintings or Engravings, for there are ex- 
tended Collediions of all thefe Objects elfewhere in 
Munich. Printed Books and Manufcripts are the 
two main Diviiions of its Property. The former 
of thefe are arranged upon the Shelves into twelve 
principal Claffes, which are ftill further fubdivided 
into 1 80 Claffes. The twelve main Diviiions are 
the following : i. Encyclopasdick Works, with 1 1 
fubordinate Claffes ; 2. Philology, with 1 8 fubor- 
dinate ; 3. Hiffory, with 40 fubordinate ; 4. Mathe- 
maticks, with 8 fubordinate; 5. Phyficks, with 13 
fubordinate; 6. Anthropology, with 4 fubordinate; 
7. Philofophy. with 3 fubordinate ; 8. ^ftheticks, 
with 1 5 fubordinate ; 9. Politicks, with 6 fubordi- 
nate ; 10. Medicine, with 8 fubordinate ; 11. Ju- 
rifprudence, with 16 fubordinate; and 12. Theo- 
logy, with 38 fubordinate Divifions. 

The Manufcripts include 580 in Greek ; 268 in 
oriental Languages; 313 in Hebrew; 14,000 in 
Latin ; 4,000 in German ; near 600 in French ; 
about 500 in Italian ; with fome in Swedilh, Slavick, 
Englifh, and other Languages ; in all, as has already 
been ffated, not far from 22,000. Among thefe 



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may be fpecified a Greek New Teftament, in uncial 
Letters, of the eighth Century ; a Copy of the 
Latin Gofpels, of the fame Age ; a New Tefta- 
ment in gold and lilver Letters, on purple Vellum, 
of the ninth Century ; an Evangelarium and Mif- 
fal, given by the Emperor Henry II. to the Cathe- 
dral of Bamberg, about the Year 1020, mofl richly 
decorated with Miniatures of the Byzantine School, 
the Binding ornamented with carved Ivory and 
precious Stones ; a magnificent Copy of the Seven 
Penitential Pfalms, in four remarkable Folios, ex- 
hibiting extraordinary Proofs of the united Skill of 
the Scribe^ the Mujician, the Painter, and the Book 
Binder; a Latin Manufcript of the Gofpels, in 
large folio, bound in Ivory and Brafs with Bor- 
ders of Portraits and precious Stones ; the Ro- 
mance of Sir Triflrant, in Verfe, written in Ger- 
man, in the 1 3th Century, and containing fifteen 
Illuminations ; an Office of the Virgin, minutely 
ornamented, bound in maffive Silver wailied with 
Gold, and conftituting, according to Dibdin, a 
Book fuperiour to anything of its Kind in Europe. 
The principal Gem, in the Department of illumi- 
nated Books of Devotion, preferved in the Royal 
Library at Munich, is what is called Albert Durer's 
Prayer Book. This confifts of a Set of marginal 
Embellifhments, by the Hand of Albert Durer, in 
a fmall folio Volume, of which the Text, written 
in a very large lower-cafe Gothick Letter, forms 
the central Part. They are executed in Colours of 
biflre, green, purple or pink, with great Beauty 



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of Conception and Vigour of Touch, affording an 
additional Proof of the furprifing Talents of the 
Author. The ancient Manufcripts relative to the 
Art of Mufick, amount to a great Number, and are 
exceedingly curious. 

Of printed Books of the fifteenth Century, the 
Library is ftated to poffefs, befides 50 block Books, 
fome of them from the Haarlem Prefs, 3,500 
without Date, and 6,000 with Dates prior to the 
Year 1500. Among thefe may be found the firft 
printed Bible, the Work of Guttenberg and Fauft, 
at Mayence, between 1450 and 1455 ; a Latin 
Pfaltery of the Year 1459, upon Vellum; Le 
Rational de Durand, of the fame Year, printed by 
Fauft and Schoffer ; the firft Books with Dates 
which were printed at Augfburg, Nuremberg and 
Munich; an Attempt at Stereotyping, made in 
1553; the Works of Virgil, of which the entire 
Text is cut upon Copper, &c. 

There is no printed Catalogue of the entire 
Library. The Catalogue in Ufe confifts of a Se- 
ries of manufcript Volumes, which are depoiited 
in Cafes, eafy of Accefs and convenient. Into 
this Catalogue new Books are entered immediately. 
The annual Sum allowed for the Increafe of the 
Library is about $10,000. The daily Manage- 
ment is admirable. The Officers conned:ed with 
the Library, are, a Chief Librarian, a Sub Libra- 
rian, 3 Affiftants, 3 Secretaries, and a Clerk, befides 
Attendants. 

In addition to the Royal Library, Munich has 



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alfo its Univeriity Library, containing about 250,000 
Volumes. 

The following Account of the Sale by Auction 
of the Duplicates of the Royal Library at Munich, 
to which we have already referred, is taken from 
the London Athenasum. The Sale took place at 
Augfburg, on the 3d of May, laft, continuing the 
whole Week. 

The great Rarity of many of the Books for Jale attra6?ed, as 
was to be expefted, much Attention, and on Monday Morning, 
when the Sale began, there were ajjembled Bookjellers from all 
Quarters of Europe. From England, we noticed Mejjrs. Boone 
and Quaritch, of London, and Stark, of Hull ; from Paris, 
Mejjrs. Vieweg and E. Trofs ; and from Germany, there were 
all the principal antiquarian Bookjellers, as AJher and Stargardt 
from Berlin, Baer from Frankfort, Weigel from Leipzig, and 
many others. We quote in Prujfian Florins the Prices of Jbme 
of the principal Works. A Jlightly defeftive Copy on Paper of 
the Mazarine Bible fold for 2,336 Florins, bought for the Em- 
peror of RuJJia. Latin Bible, undated, but fuppofed 1465, by 
Berthold and Richel, 220 fl. A Suit of early Editions of the 
Bible, in German, followed : the firjl (fee Ebert), 267 fl.; the 
fecond, 360 fl.; the third, imperfed, 30 fl.; the fifth, 130 fl.; 
thefixth, or firft dated, Edition, Augjburg, 1477, 3°° ^•' ^^^ 
feventh, 95 fl.; the ninth, 11 1 fl.; and the tenth, 115 fl. A 
fecond Volume only of the firjl Low Saxon Bible brought 
334 fl. Caftilla Concionero, 1527, imperfect, 530 fl. Percival 
and Tyturel, 1477, ^4^ ^- Balbi Catholicon, by Fuji, 1460, 
on Paper, 671 fl ; and the fame Edition, on Vellum, 4,410 fl. 
Thomaf-a-Kempis, firjl Edition, undated, 100 fl. Ciceronis de 
Officiis, by Fuji, 1465, a beautiful Copy on Vellum, 1,950 fl. 
Mijfale Ratifbonienfe, 15 18, on Vellum, imperfefl, 710 fl. 
Dante a Landino, 1481, 235 fl. Block Books, Ars Memorandi, 
725 fl. St. Johannis Evangelijlse, ijl Edition, 1,420 fl. The 
3d Edition of the fame curious Work, 1,255 A* The rare 
Spanifh Edition of 1529 of Marco Polo, 210 fl. 



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IMPERIALLIBRARYAT ST. PETERSBURG. 

525,000 Vols. 

IN the Centre of the modern Capital of Ruffia, 
upon one of the moft brilliant Streets in the 
World, the Nevfky Perfpec^live, ftands a large 
and beautiful Edifice, eredted in the later Style of 
Roman Architedure, and devoted to the immenfe 
Collections of the Imperial Publick Library. 
Although this Inftitution, like other large Libraries, 



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is a Monument of the Development of human In- 
telledl in all its various Phrafes, yet the Officers 
delight to remember at the fame Time that it is a 
remarkable Trophy of military Glory, owing the 
principal and moft precious Part of its Treafures to 
the Succefs of Ruffian Arms. The Names of 
Suwarrow and Pafkewitch are infeparably attached 
to the Foundation and Increafe of this vaft Inftitu- 
tion, while to Field- Marffial Prince Volkhonfky, 
recently Minifter of the Imperial Houfehold, was 
referved the Work of its definite Organization. 

The Hiftory of this Colle(fl;ion of Books, origin- 
ally located in Warfaw, is one of great Intereft. 
The Library was commenced by Polifh Counts, of 
the Zalufki Family, in Cracow, but in 1746 it was 
removed to Warfaw, where in 1747 it was opened 
to the Publick and formally inaugurated in Prefence 
of the King of Poland and other high Authorities. 
At this Time it is faid to have numbered three 
hundred thoufand Volumes, of which fifty-two 
thoufand were Duplicates. In 1761, one of the 
Counts by whofe pecuniary Advances it was un- 
doubtedly fuftained, becoming embarrafi^ed in his 
Affairs, tranfferred the Ownerfhip to the College 
of the Jefuits then eftablifhed in Warfaw. In 1 794 
occurred the Fall of Poland, and the Publick Library 
with the Archives of the Crown were carried off to 
St. Peterfburg. This Tranfportation being made 
by Land, and along Roads which the late Seafon of 
the Year rendered almoft impradiicable, many Boxes 
of Books fuffered from the Inclemency of the 



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Weather, others were broken or damaged, and the 
Works which they contained fpoiled, mifplaced or 
feparated. The Colleftion was conveyed to the 
Imperial Cabinet in two Convoys, and after the 
Inventory had been completed on the 23d February, 
1796, it was found that it ftill amounted to 262,640 
Volumes and 24,573 Prints. This Library com- 
prifed in general all the heft Works, up to the 
Middle of the feventeenth Century, in the Sciences, 
the Arts, and the Belles-Lettres. The theological, 
and, after it, the hiftorical and literary Branches, 
were the moft conliderable. The former alone 
comprehended above 80,000 Volumes. It was alfo 
rich in Topography, efpecially in the Hiftories of 
Towns ; and the literary Branch included a precious 
Collection of claffical Books and Works on Biblio- 
graphy ; but the Departments of Philofophy, 
Mathematicks, Phyficks, Travels and Antiquities 
were very incomplete. Such was the Foundation 
of the Imperial Library at St. Peterfburg. 

An Edifice, ordered by Catharine, having been 
completed in 1801, the Warfaw Library, IHII 
known at that Time as the Zalufki Collection, was 
removed to its prefent Accommodations. The 
Coft of the Building, of which our Engraving is 
a good Reprefentation, was not far from 60,000 
Roubles affignat. The Direcftion of the Library 
was at this Time confided to Count Stroganoff, at 
whofe Death in i 8 1 1 , it was aiiigned to the Min- 
ifter of Publick Inftrudtion. Oloueen, however, 
was really in charge of the Inftitution from 1812 



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to 1843, and from that Time to 1849 Bourtourlin 
held the fame Pofition. In Odiober of the latter 
Year,| the prefent chief Director was appointed, 
Baron Korf, a Member of the Council of the 
Empire, and a Secretary of State. About the 
fame Time the Emperor began to take a more 
perfonal Cognizance of the Affairs of the Library, 
and accordingly in February, 1850, the Jurifdidiion 
was tranfferred from the Minifter of Publick In- 
ftrudiion to that of the Imperial Houfehold, In 
the fame Month, the Regulations now in Force 
concerning the Ufe and Management of the Li- 
brary, were approved and publifhed. In addition 
to the eminent Names already mentioned. Count 
Uwaroif, afterwards Prefident of the Imperial 
Academy of Sciences, and the well known Writers, 
Kriloff, BatowfhkofF, and Gnaideech, have been 
at different Times in charge of Portions of the 
Library. 

One of the moft remarkable Departments in 
this noble Collecflion of Books, is that of the orien- 
tal Manufcripts, which, both in Extent and Value, 
is perhaps unfurpalfed. It owes its Origin to the 
celebrated Zalufki Library, and many Works ftill 
retain the Annotations of Count John Zaluilci. 
But a ftill more important Collection of oriental 
Writings was received foon after the Eflablifhment 
of the Library at St. Peterfburg. It was that of 
Dubroffki, who had improved a Relidence of twenty 
Years in different Capitals of Europe, as a Member 
of the RufHan Diplomatick Service, to colled: a 



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Mafs of Documents and Books, in all Languages 
and of every Age. The Diforganization of fome 
of the moft valuable Libraries in France, near the 
Commencement of the prefent Century, and par- 
ticularly the Deftrud:ion of the Baftile, and of the 
Abbey St. Germain, and other Monafteries, fur- 
nifhed him with rare Opportunities for the Enlarge- 
ment of a Colleftion which was othervvife very 
rich. On his Return to RulTia, the Treafures he 
had accumulated were purchafed by the Emperor 
Alexander, and placed in the Publick Library. Be- 
tween 1828 and 1830 five other important Accef- 
fions were made. The firft was the Library of 
Ardebil, which had long enjoyed great Renown in 
Perfia, not fo much for its Size as its Value. It 
was brought to St. Peterfburg in 1828, and placed 
by Command of the Emperor, as a Trophy of 
War, in the Imperial Library. There were in all 
166 rare Volumes, comprifing, exclufive of Dupli- 
cates, 96 different Works. Another Prize gained 
by the Ruffian Victories over the Crefcent, was 
brought to St. Peterfburg in 1829. It was a Col- 
led:ion of one hundred and forty-eight Volumes, 
chiefly in Arabick and Turkifli, which were taken 
by Prince Pafkevitch, at the Mofque Ahmed, in 
Akhaltfik. In the fame Year, forty-two other 
Works, a Part captured from the Turks, and a 
Part purchafed from them by their Conqueror, 
were likewife incorporated in the Imperial Library. 
The fourth of the Colle6lions to which Allufion 
has been made, was prefented to the Emperor, in 



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1829, by the Perfian Shah, Feth AH. It included 
only eighteen Manufcripts, but thefe were in the 
moft elaborate Style of the caligraphick Art, and 
were otherwife of high Value. The fifth Collec- 
tion, numbering lixty-lix Volumes, was taken at 
the Arfenal of Efkiferai, in Adrianople, and receiv- 
ed in St. Peterfburg in 1830. 

Thus it will be feen chat in two Years alone, the 
Wars of Ruffia in the Eafl enriched the publick Li- 
brary of its Capital with four hundred and twenty 
Manufcripts of remarkable Value. Among other 
Means of Increafe,the Miffion of the Greek Church- 
in Pekin has done its full Share, by contributing for 
many Years fuch Works in the Chinefe and Tartar 
Languages, as it has been able to procure. In 
addition, the duplicate Volumes from the Library 
of the Academy of Sciences in St. Peterfburg, and 
from the Hermitage, or Imperial Mufeum, have 
been tranfferred to the Publick Library. In the 
Year 1831, nearly 8,000 Volumes taken at Poulavy 
from the Library of the Princes Tchartorifki, and 
the large Number of 150,000 Volumes taken at 
Warfaw, when the Ruffians re-eftablifhed their 
Authority in Poland, were likewife brought to St. 
Peterfburg, as new Trophies of military Power. 
Since then, by Donation and Purchafe, the Library 
has continued to advance, till now in point of 
Numbers, at leafl, it ranks among the firfl in Eu- 
rope. 

The whole Collection of Books is now arranged 
in nineteen Departments, namely : i . Manufcripts ; 



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2. Works printed in the Ruffian Empire ; 3. Biblio- 
graphy and literary Hiftory ; 4. Polygraphy ; 5. 
Philology and ancient Clafficks ; 6. Oriental Writers ; 
7. Hiftory and its Auxiliaries; 8. Theology; 9. 
Jurifprudence; 10. Philofophy; 11. Belles-Lettres; 
12. Fine Arts ; 13. Natural Sciences; 14. Medi- 
cine; 15. Mathematicks ; 16. Technology and 
Mechanicks ; 17. Incunabula ; 18. Foreign Works 
relating to Ruffia; 19. Engravings. 

Among the many admirable Things which have 
been undertaken by the prefent learned Diredtor- 
in- Chief, Baron Korf, is the Collection of all 
printed Works which have ever appeared in Ruffia, 
or pertaining to Ruffia. His Efforts have thus far 
been highly fucceffiul, and through active Agents, 
he is conftantly augmenting this national Depart- 
ment. W^orks of great Age and Rarity, as well as 
others more modern, which are prohibited by the 
Cenfor from general Circulation, have been thus 
quietly colledied to the Number of many thoufands. 

There is no complete printed Catalogue of the 
Books, although an excellent one in Manufcript is 
found in the Library. There is alfo a printed Ac- 
count by Adelung, of the Collediion of Dubrofiki. 
In 1852 there was publiflied in French, an admira- 
ble Catalogue raifonee of the Oriental Manufcripts 
and Xylographs, which forms a royal octavo Volume 
of more than 700 Pages. It muft be remembered 
that the Study of Oriental Languages is confidered 
of great Importance in Ruffia, on account of the 
immenfe Extent of its eaflern Frontier, and the 



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Variety of Nations with which it is there brought 
in contad:. The Government does all in its Power 
to encourage this Branch of Study, and perhaps 
there is no City in Europe, which in Books and 
Inflrudtors, furnifhes fo good Opportunities for the 
Profecution of oriental Refearches, fo far, at leaft, 
as Language is concerned. The Catalogue juft 
alluded to is underftood to be principally indebted 
to the Labours of M. Dorn, an oriental Scholar, flill 
attached to the Corps of Librarians. Copies of it 
have been fent, in America, to the Library of the 
American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Bofton, 
the Smithfonian Inftitution in Wafhington, and the 
American Oriental Society in New Haven. 

In 1 849 the Library amounted to 45 1 ,5 3 2 printed 
Volumes, and 20,689 Volumes of Manuscripts. ^^ 
late Years, the official Reports have been annually 
publifhed in the St. Feterjburger Zeitung. and re- 
printed in the Serapeum. From thefe Returns the 
average yearly Acceffions from all Sources, from 
1849 to 1857, are found to have been about 8,000 
Volumes. The prefent Total is 525,000 Volumes 
of printed Books ; about 22,000 Volumes of Manu- 
fcripts in 41 Languages; 30,000 Autographs in 
350 different Colle6tions ; 40,000 Engravings, and 
60,000 Pamphlets. From an official Document 
lately publifhed at St. Peterfburg, it appears that 
whilft the Number of Readers in the Library was 
only 7,720, it rofe to 17,897 in 1853, to 27,866 in 
1856, and to 31,151 in 1857. 

Note, — The foregoing Account has been compiled mainly from 
Norton's Literary Gazette, with Additions, and flight Alterations, 



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ROYAL LIBRARY AT BERLIN. 

500,000 Vols. 

THE Royal Library at Berlin was founded 
in the Year 1661. It occupies a large 
Edifice in the Opera Platz, eredled for its 
Ufe in 1780, by the diftinguifhed Frederick the 
fecond. It is difficult, as indeed it is in all Cafes, 
to flate the precife Number of Volumes which it 
contains, but there are probably not lefs than 500,000 
printed Books, belides fomewhat more than 10,000 
Manufcripts. The Collecflion includes Works upon 
almoft all the Sciences, and in nearly all the Lan- 
guages, but is perhaps molf complete in the Sciences. 
Its oriental Section is very rich, and comprifes the 
entire Series of Sanfcrit Manufcripts which had 
been formed by Sir R. Chambers, Chief Juftice of 
Bengal. The manufcript Department includes alfo 
feveral Manufcripts of Veyiliere de Lacroze, the 
celebrated Author of the Lexicon i^gyptiaco- 
Latinum. Liberal Appropriations have been made 
by the Government, during the lafl few Years, for 
the Support of this Library; and, accordingly, 
about nine thoufand Volumes have of late Years 
been annually added to its Numbers. The annual 
Amount allowed for the Purchafe of Books, is about 
1 0^000 Thalers, and the Sum affigned for the other 
Expenfes of the Inftltution is not far from 15,000 
Thalers. The Building is wanting in architediural 
Beauty, owing its Shape, it is faid, to a Whim of 



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the King, who defired the Architect to take a Cheft 
of Drawers for his Model. 

The Library is open for Confultation on week 
Days, from nine o'Clock until four, and on Sundays, 
from nine o'Clock until one. AdmiiTion is eafily 
obtained to ufe in the Library fuch Works as it 
polTelTes, and in addition. Books are loaned to Per- 
Ibns connected with the Univerlity and with the 
Government, and, under certain Reftridiions, to 
other Lidividuals who are known to the Library 
Officers. It is eftimated that the Number of Vol- 
umes thus loaned from the Library, is between 
thirty and forty thoufand annually. Dr. Pertz con- 
tinues to be the head Librarian. 

Like other large European Inftitutions, this 
Library poffelTes many rare Licunabula and curious 
Manufcripts, as well as Books, which are Litereft- 
ing from the AfTociations therewith connecfled. 
Among thefe may be mentioned, Luther's Hebrew 
Bible, the Copy from which he made his Tranlla- 
tion, with marginal Notes in his own Hand ; the 
Manufcript of Luther's Tranflation of the Pfalms, 
with his Corred:ions in red Ink ; the Bible and 
Prayer Book which Charles I. carried to the Scaf- 
fold, and gave before his Death to Bilhop Juxon ; 
Guttenberg's Bible, Date 1450-55, on Parchment, 
being the firfl Book on which moveable Type was 
ufed ; a Confular Diptych of Ivory, with Reliefs, 
Date 416, one of the earlieft known; the Codex 
Wittekindii, a Manufcript of the Gofpels of the 
9th or loth Century, given, it is faid, by Charle- 



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magne to Wittekind ; feveral Ivories, or Diptychs 
of the earlieft Chriftian Times, and of Roman 
Work ; an Album, with fix beautiful miniature 
Portraits, by Luke Cranach ; feveral block Books ; 
the Rationale of Durand, on Vellum ; the Aldine 
Petrarch, &c. The CoUediion of Hiftorical Por- 
traits is very large, amounting even in 1851, to 
nearly 30,000. 

As a working Library, this is generally regarded 
as one of the beft, if not the beft, in the World ; 
certainly no large Library upon the Continent is 
more efficiently managed. It has no printed 
Catalogue, but in Place thereof there are two 
excellent ones in Manufcript, both of which may 
be freely confulted. One of thefe is alphabetical, 
extending through 650 Volumes ; the other is 
claffified, and extends through 250 Volumes. A 
new claffified Catalogue has been for fome Time 
preparing, and is now nearly ready for the Prefs. 
Two printed Catalogues of the Manufcripts have 
recently been publifhed, in quarto Volumes, with 
Illuftrations. 




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LIBRARY OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 

575,000 Vols. 

THE Britiih Mufeum was founded by Sir 
Hans Sloane, of Chelfea, an eminent Phy- 
fician, Naturalift and Benefacftor of Learn- 
ing, who, dying in 1753, bequeathed to the Nation 
his CoUedtion of Medals and Coins, ancient and 
modern Antiquities, Seals, Cameos, Drav/ings and 
Pi(ftures, and his Library, conlifting of 50,000 
Volumes of Books and Manufcripts, on Condition 
of the Payment of £20,000 to his Heirs. The 
Britifh Parliament accepted this Condition, by an 
A6t palfed in the Month of June, 1753, and by 
the fame A6t dired:ed that the Cottonian Library, 
a Colled:ion of valuable hiftorical Manufcripts 
which had been made by Sir Robert Cotton, dur- 
ing the Reign of Elizabeth and James L, and 
which had been acquired by Government in the 
Reign of Queen Anne, fhould be added to the 
Sloane Colledtion, together with a Library of 
about 2,000 printed Volumes, called Major Arthur 
Edwards's Library, which had exifted as an Append- 
age to the Cottonian Library lince 1738, the Year 
in which it had been bequeathed to the Truftees 
by its Proprietor. Thus, a coniiderable Addition 
was made to the book Department of the Sloane 
Collediion. But this Department was ordered to 
be ftill further increafed by the Purchafe for 
£10,000, of the Harleian Library of Manufcripts, 
a fplendid Colled:ion of about 7,600 Volumes of 



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Rolls, Charters, and other hiftorical Documents, 
which had been accumulated by Robert Harley, 
Earl of Oxford, and his Son and SuccefTor, Edward 
Harley. 

In 1754, Montague Houfe, one of the largeft 
Manlions in the Metropolis, was appropriated for 
the Reception of thefe Collections, which have 
iince gradually been increafed by the Munificence 
of fucceffive Parliaments, and by Gifts, Bequefts, 
and Copy-right, conftituting at the prefent Day 
the great national Inftitution of which the Englidi 
Nation is fo juftly proud, unrivalled in the Variety, 
Extent and Ufefulnefs of its Treafures, by any 
limilar Inftitution in the World. 

From the rapid Increafe of the various Collec- 
tions, and the Infecurity of the old Montague Houfe, 
a new and more commodious Stru(Sture for the 
Britifh Mufeum became neceffary. Accordingly, 
in 1823, the prefent noble Pile of Buildings, of 
which our Engraving prefents the principal Front, 
deiigned by Sir Robert Smirke, was commenced, 
and in the Summer of 1850 completed, at a Coft 
amounting to nearly £700,000. It is not far from 
the Centre of London, a little north of Oxford 
Street, one of the great Arteries of the City. It 
has Montague Place on the North, Montague Street 
on the Eaft, Great Ruflell Street on the South, and 
Charlotte Street and Bedford Square on the Weft. 
Its Situation is thus admirable for Safety, and for 
Convenience of Refort from all Parts of London. 

The different Departments of the Britifli Mufeum 



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are feven in Number, namely : Manufcripts, printed 
Books, Antiquities, Prints and Drawings, Mineral- 
ogy and Geology, Zoology, and Botany. To thefe 
fhould be added the new Reading-room juft com- 
pleted. All of thefe Departments are under feparate 
Keepers ; to whom and their Affiftant-keepers and 
their Affiftants, Attendants and fubordinate Officers, 
in fuch Strength as the Duties of each Department 
may require, the Bulinefs of the Mufeum is en- 
trufted as regards the Care and Prefervation of the 
Collections, and the Accefs of the Publick for the 
Purpofes of Infpediion and Study. Some Idea of 
the Magnitude of the Mufeum, and of its vafl Re- 
fources, may be formed by confidering that the 
whole Expenditure for Purchafes, and for the 
Maintenance of the Inflitution lince 1755, inde- 
pendently of the Amount expended on the Build- 
ings iince 1823, exceeds the Sum of £1,500,000, 
or nearly eight Millions of Dollars. The annual 
Receipts of the Inflitution, from parliamentary 
Grants and the Interefl of private Bequefls, have of 
late Years been upwards of £50,000. The Receipts 
for the Year 1847, as given by Mr. R. W. Pearfon 
in the Minutes of Evidence before the Commiffion- 
ers appointed to examine into the Conflitution and 
Management of the Mufeum, amounted to £53,999 
1 3s. 6d. independently of fpecial Grants. Of this 
Amount £21,041, los. 3d., or upwards of one 
hundred thoufand Dollars, was expended for Sala- 
ries. The total Expenditure for the Year ending 
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March 31, 1858, as ftated in Bent's Literary Ad- 
vertifer, amounted to £85,992, 2S. 9d. 

Our further Account of the Britifh Mufeum 
muft be confined to the Library and Manufcripts. 
In 1837, when Mr. Panizzi became Keeper of 
the printed Books, the Library contained about 
235,000 Volumes. In December, 1849, it was 
found by adiual Count to number 435,000 Vol- 
umes. In May, 1851, it contained 460,000 
Volumes. At prefent the Library contains 575,000 
Volumes of printed Books and 40,000 Volumes of 
Manufcripts, exclufive of more than 20,000 original 
Rolls, Charters and Deeds. It has alfo a noble 
Collection of Pamphlets, about 200,000 in Num- 
ber, including the Collections of George Thomafon, 
who lived in the Time of the Commonwealth, a 
French Colledlion of 60,000, publiflied during the 
French Revolution and the one hundred Days, &c. 
&c. The following chronological Summary of 
the more important Donations and Purchafes fince 
1753, compiled from Sims's Hand-book to the 
Library, will ferve to illuftrate its Progrefs and 
prefent Condition : 

1759. A CoUeftion of Hebrew Books, chiefl}^ ancient Editions 
of valuable Works on Jewijh Hijlory, Theology and Jurispru- 
dence. 180 Volumes. Prefentcd by Solomon Da Cojta. 1762. A 
unique Collcdion of Trads relating to Charles I. and the Com- 
monwealth. 30,000 Articles. Prefentcd by George III. 
1766. A CoUedion rich in Biography, Bequeathed by Rev. 
Dr. Birch. 1768. A fine Colle(5!ion of Bibles. Bequeathed 
by Arthur Onjlow. 1780. A CoUeflion of Englijh Plays, 
formed by Mr. Garrick. Purchased. 1786. A fine Colledion 
of clajjical Authors. 900 Volumes. Bequeathed by Mr. 



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Tyrwhitt. 1790. A CoWeRion of biographical Works. 400 
Volumes. Prejented by S. W. Mujgrave. 1799- A jplendid 
Colleftion, including many rare and valuable Editions of ClaJJicks 
as well as Italian Authors, amounting to 4500 Volumes. Be- 
queathed by Rev. C. M. Cracherode. 1799. A further Collec- 
tion of biographical Works, amounting to about 1500 Volumes. 
Bequeathed by Sir W. Mujgrave. 18 13. A highly valuable 
Colleflion of law Books. Purchajed from Francis Hargrave, 
Efq. 18 15. A fine Colleffion of Books on Mufick, forming the 
Collection of Dr. Burney, Author of the Hijtory of Mujick. 
Purchajed. 18 15. A Collection of Books, comprijing 20,000 
Volumes, mojtly upon Science, belonging to Baron de Moll. 
Purchajed at Munich. 18 18. A fine ColleSion of printed 
Books, forming the Library of Dr. Burney, the mqjl remark- 
able of which were Greek ClaJJicks, a Series of Newjpapers, in 
about 700 Volumes, and Materials for a Hijlory of the Stage. 
The whole was valued at about 9,000 Guineas. Purchajed by 
a Jpecial parliamentary Grant. 1818. A fine Collcffion, con- 
Jijling of 4,391 Articles concerning the Literature of Italy, form- 
ing the Ginguene Colle^ion. Purchajed. 1820, A Jplendid 
Library, particularly Rich in Jcientifick Journals, Tranjaftions of 
Societies, and Books on Natural Hijlory. Conjljling of about 
16,000 Volumes. Bequeathed by Sir Jojeph Banks. 1823. The 
magnificent Library, amounting to about 80,000 Volumes, formed 
by King George III. This Monarch began to collefl a Library 
in 1 762, and laid the Foundation for it by the Purchafe of a Library 
of a very eminent Charader at Venice, belonging to Conjul Smith, 
for j6 1 0,000. In 1768, Mr. (afterwards Sir Frederick) Barnard, 
the Librarian, was dijpatched to the Continent by his Majejly ; 
and as the Jejuits' Houjes were then being JuppreJJed, and their 
Libraries fold throughout Europe, he was enabled to purchaje, 
upon the mojl advantageous Terms, a great Number of valuable 
Books, including Jbme very remarkable Rarities, in France, in 
Italy, and in Germany. The entire Colleftion was formed and 
arranged under the judicious Direflion of Mr. Barnard, ajjijled 
by ^r. George Nichol, Bookjeller to his Majejly for upwards of 
half a Century. Its entire Cojl was about j£ 130,000. It con- 
tains Seledions of the rarejl Kind, ejpecially of Jcarce Books 
which appeared in the firjl Ages of the Art of Printing ; in par- 
ticular it boajls of nearly forty Volumes printed by Caxton, a 



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larger Number than can be found in any other Library, with the 
Exception of Earl Spencer's. It is aljo rich in early Editions of^ 
the Clajjicks, in Englijh Hijlory, and in Italian, French and 
Spanijh Literature ; and there is likevvijc a very cxten/ive Col- 
ledion of Geography and Topography, and of the Tranjadions 
of learned Academies. Prejcntcd to the Nation by his Majejly 
George IV. 1825. A remarkable CoUedion of Works relating 
to the Topography, and to the local as well as general Hijlory of 
Italy. Prefented by Sir Richard Colt Hoare. 1847. ^ Collec- 
tion of Chineje Books of the late Robert Morrijon, EJq., in 
11,500 Volumes. Prejented by the Secretary of State for the 
Foreign Department. 1847. The Library of the Right Honour- 
able Thomas Grenvillc, bequeathed in 1846, and removed to the 
Mujeum in February, 1847. ^^ conjijls of 20,240 \'olumes, and 
cojl upwards of ^£54,000. The Books are arranged in a fcpa- 
rate Apartment ; and for Rarit}^ judicious Seledion, and Beauty 
of Condition, and for the Number of Copies of Books on large 
Paper, it is equal to any Collcflion of the jame Extent that 
could be named. Among the many choice Treajures, may be 
mentioned the Mentz Latin Bible, ufually known as the ^Iaza- 
rinc Bible, by Guttenberg, 2 Volumes on Vellum, printed about 
the Year 1455 ; Liv}', by Sweynheim and Pannartr, printed in 
1469, the unique Copy of the firjl Edition, on Vellum (purchajcd 
in 1 8 15 for 860 Guineas) ; the firjl Edition of Ovid, by Azzo- 
guidi ; a Copy of the Aldine Virgil of 1505 ; a fplcndid Set of 
De Bry's Voyages ; an uncut Copy of Purchas's Pilgrims ; a 
firjl Shakjpeare, 1623, one of the fincjl known ; and a remark- 
able Series of the early Editions of Orlando Furiofo. 1848. The 
Colleflion of Hebrew Literature formed by Dr. IMichael, of Ham- 
burg, conjijting of 4420 Volumes of Bibles, Commentaries, 
Jcicntifick Works, and Documents illujlrative of the Hijlory o( the 
Jews. Purchafed. The mojl recent Addition has been, a vajl 
and jyjlematick Selefiion of Books in every Department of Lite- 
rature, and in all Languages, chojcn with Jpecial Reference to the 
previous Deficiencies of the Library', as they were ajccrtaincd on 
a careful Survey in 1843, and defer ibed in Mr. Panizzi's elaborate 
Report of January I, 1845. 

The Department of Manufcripts in the Britijh Mufeum is not 
lejs valuable and important than that of the printed Books. It 
embraces feveral dijlin^l Collc(^tions, as follows : (i.) The 



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Royal CoUeSion, prejented to the Nation by George II., in 1757. 
It contains 1950 Volumes. Among theje precious Manujcripts 
is the Codex Alexandrinus,a Prejent from Cyril, Patriarch of Con- 
Jlantinople, to King Charles I. It is in four quarto Volumes, 
written upon fine Vellum, in uncial Charafiers, probably between 
the fourth and Jixth Centuries, and is believed to be the mojl 
ancient Manujcript of the Greek Bible now extant. (2.) The 
Cottonian Colledlion, 900 Volumes, purchajed in 1700, and 
added to the Britijh Mujeum in 1753. It is ejpecially rich in 
hijlorical Documents, from the Time of the Saxons to that of 
James I. (3.) The Harleian Colledion, 7,639 Volumes, pur- 
chafed in 1753, for ^£10,000. (4.) The Sloane Colledion, 
4,100 Volumes, obtained in 1753. This comprifes the chief of 
Kaempfer's Manufcripts, and alfo 30 Volumes of Dr. Sloane's 
Correjpondence, Drawings of Animals, &c. (5.) The Lanf- 
downe Colledion, 1245 Volumes, acquired in 1807. (6.) The 
Hargrave Colle6?ion, 499 Volumes, purchajed in 18 13, for .£8,000. 
(7,) The Burney Colledion, 524 Volumes, purchajed in 18 17. 
(8.) The King's Colleflion, 438 Volumes, acquired in 1823. 
(9.) The Egerton CollefJion, 1613 Volumes, acquired in 1829. 
(10.) The Arundel CoUedion, 550 Volumes, acquired in 1831 ; 
Valued at .£3,560. (n.) The additional Manujcripts, as they 
are called. TheJe conjijl of Jmaller Colle^ions, acquired by 
Purchaje or Gift, and are conjlantly increajing. Among the 
more important Additions of the lajl few Years, may be noticed 
the Jplendid Bible, in 2 Volumes, of Charlemagne ; the celebrat- 
ed Bedford Mijfal, executed for John, Duke of Bedford, Regent 
of France under Henry VI.; the Correjpondence and other Pa- 
pers relating to the Captivity of Napoleon and St. Helena ; and 
a remarkable Series of Papers of the Florentine Family of Gual- 
terio, extending to about 400 Volumes, and rich in Materials 
for Italian Hijlory during the lajl Century. 

The following Account, abridged from Norton's 
Literary Regifter of 1854, will enable one to com- 
prehend at a Glance the general Charadier and 
Arrangements of the library and manufcript De- 
partments of the Britifh Mufeum : 

The Library opens out of the Hall on the right 



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Hand or eaft Side. On entering, we find ourfelves 
in a handfome Room, 73 Feet long by 33 Feet 
wide, devoted to the fplendid Colledlion of the 
Right Hon. Thomas Grenville. It confifts chiefly 
of rare Editions and Copies of the Clafficks, many 
of them unique, all beautifully bound, and in the 
fineft Condition. To feveral of the Books, Notes, 
in Mr. Grenville's Hand-writing, are attached ; 
fhowing at once the great Value of the Bequeft, and 
his own extenfive Learning and unwearying Energy 
and Liberality in the Acquirement ot his biblio- 
graphical Treafures. On the right-hand Side of the 
Room is a Buft of Mr. Grenville, prefented by Sir 
David Dundas ; and a Table where, as in the Hall, 
fhort Guide-books to the Library may be purchafed 
for two Pence. On the left, in handfomely carved 
glazed Cafes, are exhibited two Copies of the cele- 
brated Mazarine Bible, the firft Book, as well as 
the firft Bible ever printed with moveable Types, 
the one on Vellum, belonging to the Grenville 
Collection, and having been purchafed for little 
fhort of £500 ; the firfl Pfalter, being the firft 
Book with a Date and the earlieft Example of 
Printing in Colours, and various other Rarities. 

From the Grenville Room we enter the manu- 
fcript Department, alarge and heavy-looking Room, 
whofe dingy Walls and blackened Ceiling — Stran- 
gers to Whitewafli for three-and- twenty Years — 
give it a Sort of folemn, grim, literary Look, that 
confiderably enhances the Effed: of the beautiful 
and interelling Relicks difplayed in its Cafes. On 



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either Side of the Door are Cafes containing Auto- 
graphs of great and diftinguifhed Men. In one 
Divifion may be feen original Letters of all the 
great Reformers ; in another, thofe of Englifh 
Kings ; in a third, thofe of Newton, Locke, Bacon, 
Pope, &c. In one, the bold, dalliing Signature 
of Rupert ; in another the ftubborn Hand of Oliver 
Cromwell. One Cafe is devoted to Charters of 
moft of the early Englifh Sovereigns (including one 
of William the Conqueror), another to the Letters 
of foreign Princes — Napoleon, Peter the Great, 
Louis XIV., and many more ; and ftill another is 
filled with various eaftern Manufcripts, chiefly in- 
tended to illullrate the Variety of Materials ufed 
for writing, viz. : Bark, Leaves, Wood, Gold, Sil- 
ver, &c,, and containing fome Perfian and Chinefe 
Paintings of extraordinary Finifh and Brightnels. 
To the left of this, againft the Wall, is an upright 
Cafe containing an ancient Latin Manufcript of the 
Bible, fuppofed to have been the Property of 
Charlemagne ; while immediately oppofite are two 
Rolls of the Hebrew Scripture in a fimilar Cafe. 
In two Table-cafes, right and left of the Door, 
leading out of the Room, which we now approach, 
are feveral Manufcripts of almoft pricelefs Value. 
The moft remarkable, though far from the moft 
beautiful of thefe, is the celebrated Codex Alexan- 
drinus, the moft ancient Copy of the Greek Bible 
known to exift. Befide it is the no lefs famous 
Durham Book, being a Copy of the Scriptures in 
Latin, with a Commentary in Anglo-Saxon, illu- 
minated in a moft wonderfully elaborate and beau- 



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tiful Style, and fuppofed to have been written be- 
tween the Years 690 and 720. But the fineft of 
all thefe Treafures is in the right-hand Table-cafe. 
It is a fplendid Manufcript of Valerius Maximus, 
illuminated in a Style of furpaffing Beauty and 
Richnefs, and exciting Aftonifliment, no lefs by the 
vivid Colouring of the Scenes than by the extreme 
Accuracy and Finifh of the Drawing. We need 
fcarcely add, that its Value is ineftimable. In the 
next Compartment are two or three of the exqui- 
fitely illuminated Miflals, ** by monkyflhe Labourre 
wroughte." 

Paffing between two lofty oak Doors, beautifully 
inlaid with Bronze, we next enter the Royal or 
King's Library. This magnificent Gallery is of 
confiderable, perhaps difproportionate Length, mea- 
furing from Door to Door no lefs than 300 Feet, 
and occupying the remaining Portion of the eaft 
Wing. It is 41 Feet in Width, except in the 
middle Compartment, where it increafes to «;8 
Feet, and is 30 Feet in Height — the uniform Ele- 
vation of the whole Suit of Rooms. The Floor 
is of poliflied Oak, handfomely inlaid; and the 
Ceiling, efpecially in the Centre, richly decorated. 
All the Prefies on the ground Floor are protedled 
by trellis Doors of brafs Wire, which, with the 
bright brafs Railing of the Galleries, add very much 
to the Appearance of this fplendid Library. In 
each Recefs caufed by the additional Width of the 
Centre are two Corinthian Columns of polilhed 
Granite, valued at j6 1,000 each; the Shafts being 



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fingle Blocks nearly 20 Feet high, and 2 Feet 6 
Inches in Diameter. This Room contains the 
Library of King George III., prefented by George 
IV. to the Britifh Nation. In Table-cafes on both 
Sides of the Centre are fhown various Objeds of 
typographical and bibliographical Intereft. On one 
Side is a Compartment devoted to early Hebrew 
Books ; on the other, a fimilar Compartment filled 
with Aldine Clafficks on Vellum, and numerous 
other Treafures. A Catalogue of this noble Col- 
led:ion, including the Maps and Charts, prepared 
by the Librarian, Sir F. A. Barnard, was publifhed 
in 1820-29, in 6 Volumes imperial folio. Along 
the whole Length of the King's Library, on its 
eaflern Side, but rifing no higher than the Window- 
fills, is a fupplementary Gallery, lately erected; 
called very appropriately the Long Room. It is 
devoted to the recent and daily augmenting Accef- 
fions to the General Library. 

From the King's Library we pafs into a Vefli- 
bule whence a Staircafe leads up to the Natural 
Hiflory Department, and a Door, which faces us, 
into the eaflern or firft Reading-room. Thither 
the Publick are prevented from intruding by a 
Barrier. Turning fharp to the left, we enter the 
firft Room of the General Library. This is in Part 
occupied by the CoUediion bequeathed by Sir Jo- 
feph Banks. It is a Room of moderate Size, but 
giving, like the fucceeding Rooms, with one Ex- 
ception, an Impreffion of unnecefTary Darknefs as 
well as Lofs of Space above the gallery Book-cafes, 
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The next Room in which we find ourfelves, and 
which we enter from the Bankfian Room, at the 
foutheaft Corner, is called the Great or Large 
Room — a fufficiently obvious Appellation. It is a 
Saloon of cololTal Dimenfions, though much broken 
up by the RecelTes on each Side, the Projections 
forming which are terminated by fquare Pillars 
fupporting the Roof. It meafures 80 Feet long 
and 90 Feet wide, and occupies the whole Depth 
of the north Front, fo that it is lighted with Win- 
dows on both Sides. All along the Barriers are 
placed glafs Cafes, containing bibliographical Rari- 
ties of greater or lefs Value. Here are to be feen 
Coverdale's Bible, the firft complete Edition of the 
Scriptures in Englifli ; The Game and Play of the 
Chelfe, the firfh Book printed in England, having 
been iifued from Caxton's Prefs in 1474 ; the firft 
Edition of Chaucer's Book of the Tales of Can- 
terburye, of which only two perfect Copies are 
known ; and many other Objeds of the greateft 
Intereft. 

At the fouthweft Corner of the Large Room, 
and on our left as we pafs out, is a Door leading 
to the Cracherode Room, which is oppolite to, 
and of the fame Dimenfions as the Bankfian Room 
above noticed. It contains principally the Library 
bequeathed by the Rev. Dr. Cracherode, very rich 
in Clafficks ; and the Collection called the King's 
Pamphlets, a Mafs of Trad:s and curious Works, 
printed for the moft Part about the Middle of the 
17th Century, and chiefly relating to the Affairs 



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of the Nation at that Period, prefented by George 
II. 

We next pafs through two Rooms, called refped:- 
ively the Firft and Second Supplementary Rooms, 
in which there are chiefly to be noticed four Cafes, 
concaining Books with the Autographs of illuftri- 
ous Men, viz : Shakefpeare, Ben Jonfon, Bacon, 
Luther, Voltaire, &c., and three others filled with 
Specimens of ancient Binding, fome of them very 
elaborate. A Door from the fouth Side of the 
Second Supplementary Room leads into the Egypt- 
ian Antiquity Gallery, or wefl Wing of the Build- 
ing. 

Lafl of all we come to the arched Room, the 
Termination of the Suit of Rooms forming the 
Library and the north Front of the Mufeum. The 
double Galleries of this handfome Apartment pro- 
duce an Impreflion of additional Height, while 
their pierced iron Floors and the arching of the 
Piers of the ReceiTes give the Room an Appearance 
of Lightnefs and Elegance which fliow it in favour- 
able Contrafb with the others. 

The chief Officers of the library and manu- 
fcript Department of the Britifh Mufeum confift, 
Jirji, of a principal Librarian or Warden, who ex- 
ercifes a general Superintendence over the whole 
Eflablifhment, fees that the Duties of the other 
Officers are feverally performed, grants temporary 
Admiffion to the Publick, and carries into effect 
the Orders of the Truffees. This Poff, which was 
occupied for more than fifty Years by Sir Henry 



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Ellis, has been recently filled by Antonio Panizzi ; 
fecondly, a Keeper of the printed Books, J. Winter 
Jones ; thirdly , a Keeper of the Manufcripts, Sir 
Frederick Madden. 

New Reading Room. — This vaft Strudlure, 
which has been completed within the paft three 
Years, at a Cofl of £150,000, occupies an Area 
of 48,000 fquare Feet, its Site being the internal 
Quadrangle of the Mufeum. It was commenced 
in 1854, and firft opened to the Publick on the 
1 8th of May, 1857. The Building does not oc- 
cupy the whole Quadrangle, there being a clear In- 
terval of from 27 to 30 Feet all round, to give Light 
and Air to the furrounding Buildings. The Read- 
ing Room is circular, with a Dome 140 Feet in 
Diameter and 106 Feet high. The Building is 
conflrudted principally of Iron, with brick Arches 
between the main Ribs, fupported by 20 iron Piers. 
It contains ample and comfortable Accommoda- 
tions for 300 Readers, each Perfon having alloted 
to him a Space of 4 Feet 3 Inches long, with 
Deiks, folding Shelves for fpare Books, &c. The 
Cafes for Books are formed of galvanized Iron, 
the Plates or Shelves being covered with Leather 
to prevent injury to the Bindings. The Building 
contains 3 Miles of Book-cafes, 8 Feet high, thus 
forming 25 Miles of Shelving, fpaced for the ave- 
rage od:avo Size. The Books in the Mufeum 
occupy already upwards of 40 Miles of Shelving. 
The Decorations throughout are exceedingly ele- 



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gant, light Colours and the pureft Gilding having 
been preferred. 

The main Entrance into the New Reading 
Room is dired: from the great Hall, and there are 
fecondary Entrances for the Officers from the 
King's Library, and the great Northern Library 
Rooms, through which all Books are conveyed to 
the Centre of the Reading Room, whence they 
are diftributed. 

The Amalgamation of the feveral Catalogues of 
the printed Books, which are drawn up on various 
Plans, into one manufcript Catalogue on a uniform 
Plan, is proceeding rapidly. One third of the 
Alphabet, to the Letter I, has already been com- 
pleted, comprifing 623 folio Volumes. The whole 
will form when finifhed, a manufcript Catalogue 
of about 2000 folio Volumes. The Preparation 
of this Herculean Work is under the refponiible 
Superintendence of Mr. J. Winter Jones, the Suc- 
cefTor of Mr. Panizzi in the Keeperfhip of the 
Department of printed Books. 

The Truftees of the Britifh Mufeum, having 
fucceeded in providing for the Publick a Reading- 
room fuperiour in its Conftrud:ion and Appoint- 
ments to all other Buildings of the fame Clafs, 
have wifely placed its Management in the Hands 
of one of the chief Officers of the Library, who, 
in addition to his. general Duties, is charged with 
the fpecial Duty of affifling the Readers in their 
Refearches. This Gentleman, pofTeffing a large 
Store of mifcellaneous Information, an extenfive 



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Acquaintance with the Languages and Literature of 
modern Europe, and an intimate Knowledge of 
the Contents of the Library, is eminently qualified 
to difcharge the Duties confided to him to the 
great Advantage of the Readers. 

The Prefies under the Gallery are filled with a 
large Library of reference Books for the Ufe of the 
Readers, comprifing moft of the ftandard Works 
on the various Branches of Learning, and an ex- 
tenfive Collection of Di(5tionaries of all Languages, 
biographical Works, Encyclopedias, parliamentary 
Hiflories, topographical Works, &c., &c. Thefe 
Books, which are about 40,000 in Number, are 
regarded as "indifpenfably necefi"ary to Students of 
all Denominations." They can be confulted at 
pleafure, without the Trouble of filling up Tickets, 
as for other Books. A Catalogue of a Portion of 
them is given in Sims's Hand-book, to which 
reference has already been made. 

The Reading Room is open, with the Exception 
of Holidays, &c., from 9 till 4 in the Months of 
November, December, January, and February; 
from 9 till 5 in the Months of September, Odlober, 
March, and April ; and from 9 till 6 in the Months 
of May, June, July and Auguft, except on Satur- 
days when it doles at 5. The Number of Readers 
for the Year 1856, was 53,209, or an Average of 
181 per Diem; the Number of Volumes read or 
confulted, was 344,358, or i 175 per Diem. The 
Britifh Mufeum is open to publick View on Mon- 
days, Wednefdays, and Fridays, from i o till 4 dur- 



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ing January, February, November, and December; 
from ID till 5 during March, April, September, 
and October; and from lo till 6 during May, 
June, July, and Auguft. 

As a Sequel to this Account of the Library and 
Reading-room of the Britifh Mufeum, the follow- 
ing excellent Article, giving Details of their daily 
Management, will be found to be exceedingly ufe- 
ful, fuggefting to every intelligent Librarian in- 
valuable Arrangements, even for Libraries of the 
moft limited Extent. It is taken from the May 
Number of the North Britifh Review for 1851. 
The Bufinefs of the Library is clafTed under three 
Heads— Acquifitions, Catalogues, and Arrange- 
ment ; to which are added. Service of the Read- 
ing-room, Regiftration, Binding, &c. 

L Acquisitions. 

Books enter the Mufeum Library by three 
Channels, viz: by Copyright, by Purchafe, and by 
Prefentation. By the recent copyright Ad: an 
Advantage is conferred upon the Britifh Mufeum 
which is not enjoyed by the other four Libraries 
of publick Depofit ; that is to fay, the Mufeum is 
not obliged to demand Works, but the London 
Publifhers are bound to deliver their Books within 
one Month of Publication, and thofe reliding in 
the Country within three. Fox the Reception of 
Works fo delivered, an Office is fitted up where 
a Perfon is in conftant Attendance to give the ne- 
cefTary Receipts, Thefe Receipts are drawn up on 



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a printed Form, the Particulars peculiar to each 
Work — fuch as the Title, Number of the Volume, 
Size, Date, Place of Printing, and Publication, 
&c. — being filled up in Duplicate by Wedgwood's 
Manifold Writer. Of this Receipt the Dupli- 
cate is kept by the Mufeum, and thus forms not 
only a Check upon the Publisher, but alfo upon 
the Receiver, and a Regiiler of the Receipts under 
the copyright Ad:. 

In the Library everything is fyftematized as 
much as poffible ; the Confequence is, that little 
Time is loft in giving Diredions. Every one 
knows his Duty, and knows at the fame Time that 
he mufl: perform it. There are two Peculiarities 
in Mr. Panizzi's Arrangements ; one is, that each 
Part is made to depend more or lefs upon the Reft, 
fo that Derangement in one Quarter is fure to be 
felt in another, and thus Negle(fl is at once de- 
tected. The other is, that, wherever it is poflible, 
one Procefs is made to anfwer two or three Pur- 
pofes. The Mode of giving Receipts is one In- 
ftance of the latter Peculiarity, and we ftiall have 
Occalion to point out others as we proceed. 

Purchafes are effected either by dire6t Orders, or 
in the Way of Selection from Books fent in for Ap- 
proval. This Duty refts folely with the Keeper 
of the Department, who alone is authorized to de- 
cide in the firft Inftance what Works fhall be 
added to the CoUedion. The Truftees, however, 
poffefs a Veto upon the Purchafe of even the 
fmalleft Work. All Parcels of Books are accom- 



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panied by an Invoice. The Contents of each 
Parcel are checked by the Invoice, and then exa- 
mined by the Keeper, who makes his Selection — 
rejecting all fuch as he thinks it inexpedient to 
purchafe either on the Ground of Price or Condi- 
tion. The Invoice is then corredied, by ftriking 
out from it all fuch as have been fo rejecfled ; and 
the Books retained are handed over to an Attendant 
in order that the Catalogues may be fearched for 
the Purpofe of afcertaining that the Books pro- 
pofed to be retained are not already in the Library. 
When this Procefs has been carefully gone through, 
and the Invoice again weeded, by ftriking out all 
fuch as are found to be already in the Collediion, a 
Bill is made out by the Bookfeller from the Invoice 
as finally corredted, and the Books retained are 
again compared with the Bill, which is fubmitted 
to the Keeper a few Days before a Meeting of the 
Tiuflees. At the Foot of the Bill, the Keeper 
writes an Order for Payment, and the Bill fo fub- 
fcribed is laid before the Truftees, and, if approved 
by them, they make their Order authorizing Pay- 
ment. 

In the Cafe of Books which from their extreme 
Rarity, from being printed on Vellum, or from any 
other Caufe, do not come within the Clafs of ordinary 
Acceffions to a Library, a fpecial Report from the 
KeeperoftheDepartment,is required by the Trujftees, 
ftating the Grounds upon which it is confidered 
advifable that the Article in queftion fhould be 
added to the Collediion. Thefe Reports are not 
Kk 



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mere Matters of Form. A Collediion of fucli 
Documents would prove a moft curious and valu- 
able Addition to bibliographical Literature. The 
Truftees, although actuated by a liberal Spirit in 
this Refpecfl, occafionally exercife their Power of 
Rejedion. But it muft be prefumed that the 
Recommendation of their Officers always has great 
Weight, the Truflees being well aware that the 
Delirablenefs or Non-delirablenefs of an Objed: 
muft be judged of in Connexion with the particu- 
lar Colledion to which it is propofed that it lliould 
be added, and not upon its own individual Merits. 
For this Reafon it is, that no Work can be conii- 
dered too coftly for the Britidi Muleum Library, 
provided the Price be not exceffive. The Art of 
Printing has its Hiftory, like every other Art, and 
its Hiftory requires lUuftration, like the Hiftory of 
every other Art. The Hiftory of Printing is the 
Hiftory of civil and religious Freedom. When 
Providence determined that mental Darknefs lliould 
be removed, Man was made the Worker-out of his 
own Emancipation, by the Lifpiration of the Dif- 
covery of Printing. This was a fecond Creation 
of Light. If- we give to the Hiflory of Printing 
the Importance it really polTelTes, and regard great 
Libraries, like that of the Britilh Mufeum, as the 
Depofitories of the Evidences of its miraculous 
Progrefs and Effedis — then a Fragment of a Dona- 
tus, a Caxton, an early Edition of a Bible, a firfl 
Edition of a ClafTick, or the firfl Produdions of 
the Printing Prefs in the United States, Mexico, 



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California, Auftralia, or the Sandwich Illands, 
ceafe to be Curiolities, and take their defervedly 
prominent Place in the Hiflory of Civilization, 

In fele(^ing the Acceffions to be made to the 
Library of the Britifh Mufeum, this Illuftration of 
the Paft has been kept conftantly in View, at the 
fame Time that every Etfort has been made to give 
the current Literature of all Countries a Place on 
the Shelves of the Inftitution. It muft not be 
alTumed that every, or indeed any Clafs is perfect. 
For fuch a Confummation two Conditions are 
indifpenfable — unlimited Funds, and unlimited 
Space. An Approximation might be made to the 
iirft Requilite, for to the Honour of Parliament in 
general, and of Mr. Hume in particular, be it 
fpoken, every Difpofition has been fhown to make 
Grants in the mofl liberal Spirit. But Space is 
another Queftion. Walls of five Feet in Thicknefs 
are not of rapid Growth ; and if they were, Bed- 
ford Square and Upper Montague Place exercife a 
rather powerful Veto upon any very extenfive 
Ramification. We have, however, great Reliance 
upon the Refources and Energy of the prefent 
Keeper of the printed Books, upon the Readinefs 
of the principal Librarian to fupport, and of the 
Trufbees to adopt any Suggeftion for the Improve- 
ment of the noble Inftitution the Affairs of which 
they adminifter ; and we do not defpair to fee the 
Library reprefent in a complete Form, not only the 
fcientifick and polite Literature of the United King- 
dom, but of the whole World. 



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Prefented Works are laid before the Truftees at 
the monthly Meetings, and Thanks ordered in the 
ufual Manner in fuch Cafes. 

The next Procefs is to attach to each Part or 
Volume a Mark by which it fhall be diftinguiflied 
as the Property of the Mufeum. This is now ef- 
fe(5led by impreifing at the Beginning of the 
Book the Mufeum Stamp, and at the End the 
Date of the Day, Month and Year, when the Bill 
was figned for Payment by the Keeper of the Li- 
brary. We have before obferved that whenever it 
is pracfticable, one Procefs is always made to fub- 
ferve more Purpofes than one — and this Stamping 
of the Books is another Inftance of it. It is a 
Proof in the iirft Place that the Book has been 
paid for, and is thus in every Senfe the Property of 
the Truftees ; and, fecondly, the Bills being kept 
in chronological Order, Reference can be imme- 
diately made to them from any Book of which it 
may be defired to afcertain the Price, or of whom 
purchafed. 

Books obtained by Copyright are ftamped in 
like Manner by the Perfon who receives them. 

Ink of three different Colours is ufed in ftamp- 
ing Books, for the three different Modes of Acqui- 
lition — red, indicating that a Book was purchafed; 
blue, that it came by Copyright ; and yellow, that 
it was prefented. 



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II. Catalogues. 

Having thus fhewn how Books are acquired and 
ftamped, we fhall now proceed to the important 
Detail of Cataloguing. And here we muft beg 
our Readers not to be alarmed by this awful Word 
Cataloguing — a Word fuggeftive of laborious 
Refearch and mechanical Care and Precilion to an 
Extent fufpedied by few. It is far from our In- 
tention to enter into the Subjed: of clalTed and 
alphabetical Catalogues, or to attempt to decide the 
Queflion between long and fhort Titles. Thefe 
are Matters which have already been productive of 
too many Scratches and hard Knocks to hafty Vol- 
unteers in this dangerous Field. 

For the Purpofe of forming the Catalogue, 
feveral Gentlemen pofTeffing peculiar Qualifications 
are employed in the Library. All are Linguifts to 
a confiderable Extent, fome polTeffing this Accom- 
plifhment in a more than ordinary Degree. In a 
Library like that of the Britifh Mufeum, where 
the Literature of every Country in the World, and 
of every Age is reprefented, it is of courfe the 
Duty of the Authorities to fee that there fhall be 
found in it Perfons capable of defcribing Works of 
fuch varied Character. This Duty has not been 
negledled. One Cataloguer attends folely to the 
Chinefe Books; another when requifite to Oriental 
Works ; a third to Hebrew and rabbinical Litera- 
ture ; a fourth devotes his Attention to the Maps ; 
a fifth, in addition to other Duties, catalogues the 



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Mufick and Slavonick Works; while Books in Latin, 
Greek, French, Italian, Spanifli, Portuguefe, Ger- 
man, Dutch, Danifh, and Swedilli, find ready 
Hands for regiftering their Contents. 

Great Efforts are made to lecure Uniformity of 
Plan in cataloguing, fo far as that moil: defirable 
Objedt is attainable. For this Purpofe a Code of 
Rules has been drawn up, and revifed and fandion- 
ed by the Truftees. Objedtions have been brought 
againft thefe Rules on the Ground of their Num- 
ber and Minutenefs ; but as no Obje(5tor has yet 
fhewn how fix Perfons can be brought to catalogue 
in one and the fame Manner, Books which may 
be catalogued fix different Ways, unlefs they are 
told which of the fix W^ays they are to follow, we 
think we are at Liberty to adopt the Views lb fully 
explained by Mr. Panizzi in his Evidence before 
the Commiflioners on the Britifli Mufeum, wherein 
he brings his own matured Experience to bear 
with overwhelming Force upon the Fancies of his 
Opponents. 

When a Book is catalogued it is paffed over to 
a Revifer, whofe Duty it is to fee that all the Rules 
laid down for cataloguing have been duly obferved. 
This is a Work of no flight Labour and Refponfi- 
bility, and it is intruded to thofe only who have 
had great Experience, and have fliewn much Care 
and Skill as Cataloguers. This may be regarded 
as an Excefs of Caution, but it has been found ad- 
vifable in Practice. It is evident that there will 
occur Differences of Opinion in the Interpretation 



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of Rules, however clearly and ftridily worded, and 
that when feveral Perfons work independently of 
each other, although under the fame Rules, Dif- 
crepancies will be found which mufh be reconciled. 
This is one of the chief Duties of the Revifers. 
The Keeper of the Department is the ultimate 
Referee in all Cafes of Difficulty. Thefe Difcre- 
pancies occur mofi: frequently in the Titles of 
anonymous Works; and we mufi: here give in our 
Adhefion to the Opinion exprefled by more than 
one Witnefs before the Commiffioners, viz., that 
there fhould be one iimple and uniform Rule, for 
cataloguing anonymous Books ; the iirfl Word or 
the firft Subflantive of the Title is better than any 
other, becaufe it is more Iimple than any other; 
but let there be one Rule — let that Rule be one 
that can be uniformly adopted, and let there be 
plenty of Crofs- references from what are termed 
leading Words of the Title; as Crofs-references 
thefe leading Words enable us to find the Book, 
but they only lead us aflray in Proportion to their 
Number, when one is feledied for the main Entry 
of the Work. 

III. Arrangement. 

The Books being catalogued and revifed, the 
next Care is to arrange them on the Shelves. This 
is a very important Procefs, and one the Execution 
of which requires a vaft amount of general In- 
formation, and a Knowledge of not lefs than 
twelve Languages. In the Library of the Mufeum 



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the Objecflion to Claffification extends no farther 
than to the Catalogue. The Books are arranged 
in fix great ClaiTes, viz : i. Rehgion. 2. Jurif- 
prudence. 3. Philofophy. 4. Arts and Trades. 
5. Hiftory. 6. Literature. The Subdivilions un- 
der each of thefe ClaiTes are ftridlly and even mi- 
nutely obferved. We regret that our limited Space 
forbids our entering more into Detail upon this 
Branch of our Subjed:, as it is one of great Interefl 
and Utility, and is that Part of the Arrangement 
of the Library which is far from being the leaft 
creditable to the Gentlemen engaged in carrying it 
out. 

The Library is divided into FrelTes, each of 
which has a Number ; the Shelves of each Prefs 
are diftinguifhed by a Letter of the Alphabet, and 
the Place of each Book on a Shelf is indicated by 
a Number; thus, 573 c 13, means the thirteenth 
Book on the third ore Shelf of Prefs 573. When 
the prefent Library was ered:ed, the Numbers of 
the PrefTes were carried on from thofe of the King's 
Library, and when a fupplementary Room to the 
new Library was built, the Numbers were again 
carried on, thus forming a regular Series from i to 
1 61 8. A natural Confequence of this Arrangement 
has been that the fame Clafs of Books will be found 
in more Places than one, it being evident that 
when all the fpare Room left between one Clafs 
and another has been filled up, a frelh Locality 
mufi: be afilgned to fubfequent Acquifitions in the 
fame Clafs, In order to avoid this Inconvenience 



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as far as poffible, a new Plan has been Introduced 
into a fupplementary Library recently erecfled. The 
Numbers of the Preffes are no longer in immediate 
Sequence, thus — fuppoiing the firfl Prefs to be 
numbered 2000, and that the Works under the 
Clafs Religion occupy two PrelTes, twenty Numbers 
may neverthelefs be allotted to this Clafs. 

The iirft three Numbers would then be 2000, 
2001, 2020. When a third Prefs was required for 
theological Works, inflead of placing them in an- 
other Part of the Library, the Books in the Prefs 
called 2020, together with its Number, would be 
moved on to the next Prefs, and the Prefs occupied 
by 2020 would be called 2002. By this Procefs 
all the Works belonging to one Clafs may be kept 
together for a longer Period than was practicable 
under the old Syftem, This Arrangement involves 
two indifpenfable Conditions, viz : plenty of Room 
and that all the Preffes fhould be exad;ly of the 
fame Size. This is called the expanfive Syftem. 

An expanfive Syftem, but of a different Charac- 
ter, has alfo been applied to the periodical Publica- 
tions, and to the Maps. This Plan confifts in 
attaching a Number to the Book or Map, but not 
to the Locality in which it is placed ; the Numbers 
in thefe Inflances, alfo, not being in immediate 
Sequence. Thus the Periodicals may be marked 
I, 5,. 10, 15, 20, &c., leaving the Intervals to be 
filled up by future Acquiiitions ; the Advantage of 
which is, that thofe of a particular Character and 
LI 



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Country can be kept together, without interfering 
with the Sequence of Numbers. 

The Maps, requiring more minute ClaiTification 
alfo, demand a more complicated Syftem of mark- 
ing. The following is the Mode adopted : The 
Colleftion is arranged geographically. All the 
folded Maps, comprifing almoft the entire Collec- 
tion, are kept in light millboard Cafes, fomcwhat 
refembling folander Cafes. Maps of the World, 
of the great Divifions of the Globe, and of par- 
ticular Countries or Localities, form what are 
termed Claffes, and no two ClalTes are allowed to 
be placed in the fame Cafe. Thefe Clalfes are 
numbered, but not in regular Sequence, Intervals 
being left for additional Claffes. Maps of the 
fame Clafs are arranged in the Cafes chronologi- 
cally, and numbered, but not in regular Sequence, 
Intervals being left greater or fmaller according to 
the Date to be provided for ; thus, fewer Numbers 
are left open between 1500 and 1600 than between 
1600 and 1700, it being very properly confidered 
that the Acceffion of Maps printed in the feven- 
teenth Century will be much larger than of thofe 
printed in the fixteenth. 

The Books, when catalogued and revifed, are 
forted into their feveral Clalfes and Subdivifions ; 
thefe Parcels fo forted are carried to their refpe6live 
Localities, and arranged on their proper Shelves, 
the Titles remaining in the Books. When the 
Books are placed, an Attendant marks the Books 



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and their refpeitive Titles with the Prefs-mark 
proper to each, throwing each Title as he marks 
it into a box. When the Book is marked the next 
Procefs is to attach the Prefs-mark to the Back of 
it. Thefe Prefs-marks are printed on Paper of 
various Tints, to match the different coloured 
Leathers ufed in Binding. They are printed in 
large Sheets and cut out with a Stamp of an oval 
Shape. The Number of the Prefs is attached to 
the upper Part of the Back of the Book, the Mark 
for the Shelf, and Number of the Shelf, to the 
lower Part of the Back. This Plan faves a great 
Deal of Time, Before its Introdudlion, the Place 
of a Book could not be afcertained without open- 
ing it — now it is only necellary to look at the 
Back, and its proper Locality is feen at once. An- 
other Advantage is, that if a Book be placed by 
Accident into the wrong Prefs or on the wrong 
Shelf, the Miftake is fure to be detected. 

The Titles, when marked as above defcribed, are 
fent to the Superintendent of the Tranfcribers, 
whofe Duty it is to fee that all the Titles are duly 
entered in the Catalogues, and to revife the Entries 
fo made, in order that there may be no Blunders in 
the Tranfcript. Thefe Duties of Tranfcription 
and Revilion demand a conliderable Acquaintance 
with Languages in the Tranfcribers, and, more 
efpecially in the Revifer. It is evident that the 
latter muft be familiar with all the Languages 
known by the whole Body of Tranfcribers. The 
Procefs of inferting Titles in the Catalogue is fo 



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peculiar, that we feel ourfelves juftified in going 
fomewhat into Detail in delcribing it. Each Mais 
of Titles is, in the firft Place, feparated into Eng- 
lifli and Foreio^n. Each of thefe Sets is then ar- 
ranged in alphabetical Order, and incorporated 
with thofe which may have already been accumu- 
lated for Tranfcription. When the Titles are to be 
copied, they are diftributed among the Tranfcribers 
according to the Languages each may beft under- 
fland. This Tranfcription is not made into the 
Catalogue, but into a Book, the Leaves of which 
conlift of the thinefl: Paper, prepared for Wedg- 
wood's Procefs of manifold Writing. Four Tran- 
fcripts are taken at once, carbonic Paper being 
placed between the firft and fecond Sheet, and the 
third and fourth. EachTranfcriber ufes two Books, 
by which Arrangement the Superintendent is en- 
abled to collate with the original Title- Hip the 
Work of each Day, without flopping the Tran- 
fcribers, who continue the Tranfcription in the 
Book not under Revifion. Thefe Books, as they 
are filled and revifed, are handed over to the Binder, 
who mounts each Leaf upon one of rather ftronger 
Paper. Thefe Leaves when dried are fubjeded to 
enormous Prefiiire. Each four duplicate Sheets are 
then pinned upon a Board and cut into Slips be- 
tween each Title. We now have the Tranfcription 
on feparate Slips, the four Duplicates being kept 
together. The next Procefs is to arrange them in 
their proper Order, and incorporate them with the 
Mafs of Titles (if any) already prepared and ar- 



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ranged for Infertion in the Catalogue. When the 
Infertion is to be made, the tranfcribed Titles are 
divided into Parcels according to the Letters con- 
tained in each Volume of the Catalogue, and then 
each Title is marked with a Number, and a corre- 
fponding Number,marked in the Place in the Cata- 
logue the Title is to occupy. Each Volume of the 
Catalogue fo fupplied with Titles is then handed 
over to two Binders, one of whom paftes the upper 
and lower Edge of each Title and hands it to his 
Companion, who inferts it into the Catalogue — the 
two Ends of each Title being left open. When it 
becomes necelfary to fhift one of thefe Titles, in 
order to preferve the ftriit alphabetical Arrangement, 
a Paper-knife is inferted into the open End, and 
the Title is removed without difficulty. The Slip 
upon which the Tranfcription is made being 
mounted upon another, any Abrafion which may 
occur from this Procefs affedts not the Slip written 
upon, but only that upon which it is mounted. 

Should a thicker Paper be introduced, and the 
Procefs of mounting be difcontinued, this Advan- 
tage will of courfe be loft. Before we quit the 
Subjedt of Tranfcribing, we will mention a ftriking 
Fad: conneded with the Expenfe of this Branch of 
the Management. It appears from the Evidence of 
Mr.Panizzi before theMufeum Commiffioners, that 
at one Time the Tranfcribers were paid at the Rate 
of one Penny per Title. Under the prefent Syftem, 
this fame Item amounts to about three-fourths of 
one Farthing per Title, or three-fixteenths of the 



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former Charge; in other Words, the fame Amount 
of Work which formerly coft four Pounds, is now 
obtained for about fifteen Shillings. 

When the Title of a Work is entered in the 
Catalogue, the Wx)rk may be faid to be then at 
the Command of the Readers; we believe, how- 
ever, that we are juftified in ftating, that at no 
Time has a Reader been denied the Ufe of a Book 
merely becaufe the Title had not appeared in the 
Catalogue. 

IV. Reading Room. 

The Service of the Reading-room, like every 
other Service in the Department, is fyftematized. 
We have already given the Hiftory of a Book from 
the Shelves of the Bookfeller to thofe of the Mu- 
feum ; we will now give the Hiftory of a Book 
from the Shelves of the Mufeum to the Handsof 
a Reader, and back to its Shelf again. 

The Readers are provided with blank Tickets, 
on which they write the Prefs-mark, Title, very 
fhortly, Size, Place, and Date of the Book they 
want, the Date of the Application and Signature of 
the Reader being fubfcribed. Thefe Tickets are 
handed to an Attendant who fits at a Bar which 
feparates the Reading-rooms from the Library. 
The Tickets are palled by him into the Library, 
where they are placed on a Table in the Order in 
which they are delivered from the Reading-rooms. 
The Attendants, whofe Duty it is to fupply the 
Readers with Books, take thefe Tickets in the Or- 



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der in which they are received, no one being at 
Liberty to feled: a Ticket, unlefs it be for a Book 
wPiich ftands near to one he is about to fetch. 
To each of thefe Attendants a Number is attached, 
regulated originally by the Order of the initial Let- 
ter of his Name in the Alphabet, and each Attend- 
ant is alfo furniflied with, fay, 200 Pieces of Mill- 
board, the Ends being covered with red roan Lea- 
ther, on the Edge of which the Number of the 
Attendant is ftamped, and on the Side the Num- 
ber of the Board, thefe Boards being numbered in 
regular Sequence, from one up to as many as the 
Attendant has. When a Book is taken from a 
Shelf, the Attendant puts one of his Boards in its 
Place, taking Care to ufe them in their regular 
Order, that is, having once ufed, fay. No. 10, he 
will keep that back until he has gone through all 
his Boards and come round to 10 again. Each 
Attendant is alfo provided with a Book filled with 
blank Leaves. When he has taken from the Shelf 
a Book for a Reader, he marks in Pencil on the 
Back of the reader's Ticket the Number of the 
Board he has left in its Place. He then enters in 
his Book, in one Line, firft the Prefs-mark of the 
Book, the Name of the Reader, and his own Num- 
ber, and the Number of his Board ; and then in 
the fame Line the Prefs-mark again, the Name of 
the Author or firft Word of the Title of the Book, 
the Size, Place, and Date, the Name of the Read- 
er, and the Number of his Board, 

When the Work has been entered by the At- 



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tendant, it is placed on the Bar which ieparates 
the Library from the Reading-room, whence it is 
taken by one of the Attendants in the Reading- 
rooms, and delivered to the Reader. The Attend- 
ant who fo delivers it then writes on the Ticket 
the Letter D (meaning delivered), and hands it to 
the Attendant we have before mentioned as fta- 
tioned at the Bar, who depofits it in one of a Set 
of Pigeon-holes fixed beneath the Bar under the 
initial Letter of the Reader's Name. The Reader 
is refponfible for the Book fpecified on his Ticket 
fo long as the Ticket remains in the PoiTelTion of 
the Authorities of the Library. When a Reader 
has no longer Occafion for a Work, he returns it to 
the Attendant at the Bar, who delivers to him his 
Ticket in exchange, having firft compared the 
Work with the Ticket, in order to fee that all is 
returned that is fpecified upon it. 

The Books fo returned are placed on a Table 
and forted according to their Prefs- marks, for the 
Purpofe of being reftored to their refpedive Places 
on the following Morning. 

It frequently occurs that a Reader is defirous of 
ufing the fame Book from Day to Day. When 
this is the Cafe he writes his Name on a Slip of 
Paper and places it with the Books, which are 
then depofited in Clofets fitted up with Aiding 
Shelves for this efpecial Purpofe. The Utility of 
this Plan may be appreciated from the Faft, that 
every Year nearly 100,000 Volumes are in this 
Manner laid afide for continuous Ufe by the 



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Readers. The conlequent faving of Time and La- 
bour is immenfe. It muft not be imagined, how- 
ever, that through this Procefs a Reader can 
infure to himfelf a Monopoly of any Work. The 
Maxim " firft come firfh ferved," is flridily adhered 
to. Should a Reader apply for a Work fo fet aiide 
before the Perfon for whofe Ufe it is kept prefents 
himfelf to claim it, it is tranlferred, as it is termed, 
to the new Reader. This Procefs confifts in en- 
tering the Work in the ufual Form, but in a parti- 
cular Book and in red Ink. Thefe Entries are 
made by an Attendant whofe Duty it is to take 
Charge of the Clofets, and alfo to fee that the 
readers' Tickets are actively and properly attended 
to. 

Every Attendant writes in his Book the Day of 
the Month at the Commencement of the Entries 
of each Day. At the End of the Day he cuts 
between each Line of Entries as far as his own 
Number. The Books of all the Attendants are 
then taken away by the Bookbinder, whofe Duty 
it is to cut oiF all the Entries as far as they have 
been cut through by the refped:ive Attendants, to 
arrange them all into one Series according to their 
Prefs-marks, and pafte them into a Book, heading 
each Day's Work with the Date, and writing at 
the End the Number of thefe Dockets. This 
forms a daily Regifter of all the Readers who have 
written for Books. 

Every Morning the Books returned from the 
Reading-rooms on the previous Day are carried 
Mm 



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to the feveral Parts of the Library to which they 
refpeftively belong. Two Attendants then go 
round with the Regifler of {hort Entries or Dock- 
ets above referred to, and while one puts each 
Work on the Shelf, and calls out the Prefs-mark, 
the other calls out the Number of the Attendant he 
finds in the Regifter, whofe Board is then removed, 
and the Docket is ftamped in red Ink, with the 
Date when the Book is returned; thus, i8 351, 
indicating that the Work was reflored to its Place 
on the 1 8 th of March, 1851. 

All this will doubtlefs appear complicated and 
confufed to our Readers ; and it may by fome be 
conlidered that Refinement and Minutenefs of De- 
tail had been carried too far. In the adlual work- 
ing of the Scheme, however, there is neither Com- 
plication nor Confufion. Every Effort is made to 
economize Time and Labour, but without facrificing 
that Care or giving up thofe Checks which are 
abfolutely indifpenfable in the Management of a 
large publick Library. A Comparifon of the an- 
nual Returns of former Years, with thofe of more 
recent Date, will fhew with what vaft Rapidity the 
Labours of the Department have been extended, 
and to how great a Degree of Perfection the Syftem 
of ftatiftical Detail has been carried. 

V. Registration. 

The Contents of every Bill is analyzed; that is 
to fay, the Number of Volumes, of Parts of Vol- 
umes, of Maps, and of Sheets of Maps, are taken 



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out and entered in a Book in their refped:ive Col- 
umns. The fame is done with Objects prefented. 
At the End of the Yearthefe Columns are caft up, 
and it is immediately known what has been the 
Number of Articles procured during the Year 
through thefe Channels refpediively. 

The duplicate Receipts kept by the Receiver of 
Works under the copyright Ad: give the fame In- 
formation for this Branch of the Acquilitions. 

The Regifter fhews the Number of Books re- 
turned to the Shelves, every Day. A Book kept 
by the Attendant who has Charge of the Clofets 
affords limilar Details refpeding the Number of 
Books kept for the Readers from Day to Day. 

Every Cataloguer regifters daily, in a Book 
kept by himfelf, the Number of Titles written by 
him ; the Aggregate of thefe Books gives the 
Number of Titles written in the Department dur- 
ing any Period. 

Revifers and Tranfcribers keep limilar Accounts. 

One of the Superintendents of the Reading- 
rooms regifters the Number of Vifits made daily to 
the Reading-rooms, and reports the Total, at the 
End of the Year, to the Keeper of the Department 
of printed Works. A fimilar Account is kept in 
the readers' Lobby; but as this latter Account 
makes no Diftindion between thofe who come to 
read and thofe who may pafs into the Reading- 
rooms for other Purpofes, Difcrepancies may occur, 
and in the Returns for the Year 1850 actually did 
occur, between the two Accounts. 



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The Refult of all this is, that in the Courfe of a 
few Hours an exad; and minute Return can be 
given of everything done in the Department during 
the Year, or any other given Period, the whole 
forming an Array of Numbers truly ftartling. 

We have before obferved that one Procefs, 
whenever it is polTible, is made to fubferve feveral 
Objedts. We have fhewn how the Receipts for 
Books delivered under the copyright A(5t anfwer 
not only the ordinary Purpofe of a Receipt, but alfo 
of a Regifter of fuch Books. 

The readers' Regifter fhews at one Glance how 
many Books were fent to the Reading-rooms on a 
particular Day, the Day any Book was removed 
from the Shelves, for whom it was taken, by whom 
it was taken, the particular Board left for it, and 
when it was returned. Each attendant's Regifter 
fliews what Books he removed from the Shelves on 
a particular Day, for whom, and the Number of 
his Board ; while the Board on the Shelves fhews 
what Attendant removed the Book, and by its 
Number points to the particular Entry in his Re- 
gifter. By Means of this Syftem a Book can be 
traced regularly through any Number of Hands for 
any Length of Time, and Faults in the reading- 
room Service can in like Manner always be traced 
to the guilty Party. 



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VI. Binding. 

The Binding of Books forms a very important 
Item in the Economy of a pubhck Library. The 
great Defideratum for theMafs of Books is Strength 
and DurabiUty at the leaft poffible Expenfe. In a 
Library Hke that of the Britifh Mufeum, it may 
well be imagined, there is abundant Opportunity 
for tefting the various Styles of Binding and Kinds 
of Leather, fo as to arrive at the moft corre<5l Judg- 
ment upon this Point. The general Plan now 
adopted is as follows : All Didiionaries to be 
full bound in Ruffia. Other Works likely to be 
in frequent Ufe to be half-bound in Morocco, with 
cloth Sides. Two or more Volumes of the fame 
Work are always bound together where their Bulk 
will permit it. Pamphlets are half-bound in Roan, 
with paper Sides. Experience has fhewn that this 
Plan is in every Refped: the moft economical that 
could be adopted. Different Colours are ufed ac- 
cording to the Subjecft of the Book, thus, red for 
Hiftory, green for Botany, blue for Theology, &c. 

In the Library of the Britifh Mufeum, as in 
other large Libraries, certain Works confidered to 
be feled:, are fet apart from the Reft and preferved 
with greater Care. Among thefe are feveral remark- 
able for their Bindings, which are arranged fo as to 
illuflrate as far as practicable the Styles of different 
Schools, Englifh, French, Italian, &c. The prefent 
Keeper of the Department, looking upon Book- 
binding as fomething more than the Art of ftitch- 



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ing loofe Sheets neatly into a Cover, has en- 
deavoured, in binding rare and valuable Books, to 
follow the grand Example fet by Grolier, Majoli, De 
Thou, and others, and would fain give an Individuality 
to the Drefs of his Proteges. In fome Inftances the 
Succcfs has been great. A good Bookbinder ought 
to be a Man of great Tafte, and an Artift. All 
ufe Flowers and Studs and Fillets ; but what Flow- 
ers were ever fo graceful as the Flowers of Roger 
Payne ? who has ever fprinkled his Studs as he 
fprinkled them ? who can not immediately recog- 
nize Lewis's iimple Fillet, fo beautifully true } The 
German Style of Tooling at the End of the 15th 
Century was heavy, but it was blind, and the Ef- 
fect, confequently, was maffive and grand. Ger- 
man Tooling at the prefent Day is no lefs heavy, 
but it is no longer blind, but in Gold ; and the 
EfFed: is no longer maffive and grand, but vulgar. 
The Materials are there, but the artiftic Talfe is 
wanting. 

But we are diverging into a Dilfertation upon 
Bookbinding. By the Statutes of the Britiih Mu- 
feum, no Objed: is allowed to be removed from the 
Premifes. This Regulation involves the Neceffity 
of having a Bookbinder attached to the Eftablilh- 
ment. When Books are removed from the Shelves 
for the Purpofe of being bound or repaired, a Board 
fimilar to thofe above defcribed as ufed by the At- 
tendants is left in its Place. On this Board the 
letter B is ftamped, indicating that the Book is in 
the Hands of the Binder. The Books fo fent are 



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entered by an Afliftant in what is termed the bind- 
er's Book, a Margin being left on both Sides. In 
that on the left the Binder writes the Prefs-mark 
of the Book, in that on the right Mr. Panizzi 
writes Directions as to the Manner in which the 
Book is to be bound or repaired. The Entry of 
each Batch of Books is dated and figned by the 
Binder, and when returned each Entry is ftamped 
with the Date. The Signature makes the Binder 
refponlible for the Books, the Stamp is his Difcharge. 
The Date at the Head and the Stamp on the Entry 
£hew how long he has kept each Book. The En- 
tries alfo are made in the Form to be obferved for 
the lettering Piece on the Back of the Book, and 
this is again an Inftance of one Procefs ferving a 
double Purpofe. 

We will only mention one Point more ; all the 
Shelves upon which large and heavy or handfomely 
bound Books are placed are lined with hard and 
fmooth Leather. This fimple Procefs tends greatly 
to preferve the Binding. 





INDEX. 

PART FIRST. 

BIBLIOGRAPHY 



Note. — The Figures refer to the Pages of the Manual. 



A CHARD, C. F., 5. 

Cours Element dc Biblio- 

graphie, 1 1 . 

Adelung, J. C, 109. 

Fried. Bib. Sanfcrita, 5 i . 

The fame tranflatcd, 52. 

Krit. Ueberficht dcr Reis. 

in Ruffland, 82. 

Africa. See Ternaux, 104. 

Agaffiz's Bib. Zool. et Geo]., 95. 

Albert's Recherches fur la ClafT. 
bib., 41. 

Aldi. See Renouard, 28. 

Aldus Manutius, 28. 

Alifon, Archibald, 107. 

Allen's American Biog. Didlion- 
ary, 56, 106, 

Allgemeine Bib. heraus. von Tro- 
mel. III. 

Allibone's Crit. Didl. of Eng. Lite- 
rature, 55, 105. 

Althorp. ^des Althorpianae, 24. 

Nn 



American Bibliographies, 55. 

-— ' Pub. Circular, iii. 

Ames's Typ. Antiquities, 22. 
Ampere's Effai fur la Clafs. de Con- 

naiffance, 41. 
Analcftick Magazine, 62. 
Anderfon's Annals of the Englifh 

Bible, 62. 
Anett's Inquiry into the Form of 

Books, 30. 
Angling. See Blakey, 96. 
--- .... — Ellis, 99. 

Anonymous Books, 37. 
Antonio's Bib. Hifpana, 82. 
Anzeiger fiir Bibliographie, i o, 1 1 3 . 
Appleton's Lib. Manual, 87. 

-^ Cyclop, of Biog., 107, 

Arithmetick. See De Morgan, 98. 
Archivio Storico Ital., 82. 
Afher's Eflay on Dutch Books, 56. 

-^^- Scriptores Ger. 75. 

Afia. See Ternaux, 104. 



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Afpinwall's Bib. Amcr. Sep., 56. 
Aftle on Writing, 14. 
Aftronomy. See La Lande, 100. 
Athenaeum Journal, 1 12. 
Atkinfon's Med. Bib., 95. 
Audifredi, J. B., 32. 

Cat. et Specimen, 23. 

Aurivillii Bib. Hift. Sueo-Goth. 86. 
Autographs, 18. 



"DACKER'S Biblictheque de la 

Comp. de Jefus, 96. 
Buhle's Verfuch einer krit. Lit., 83. 
Bailly's Notices Hiftoriques, 46. 
Baird, William, 107. 
Balbi's Bib. de Vienne, 46. 

— Anciennes etmod., 46. 

Bancroft, George, 105. 
Bandini's Typographia, 23. 
Banks, Jofeph, 98. 
Barbier, A. A., 4, 11. 

. Dift. des Ouvr. Anon,, 37. 

Nouveau Bib., 88. 

Bartfch's Peintrc Graveur, 19. 
Baitiat's Diftionnaire, 96. 
Bauer's Bib. Lib. rariorum, 32. 
Bayer, F. P., 82. 
Beloe's Anecdotes, 62. 
Bent's Lit. Advertifer, 112. 
Bentkowfkiego's Hillorya, 82. 
Berard's Effai fur les Elzevirs, 23, 

96. 
Bernard's Imprimerie en Europe, 

23- 
Bible, Englifli. See Anderfon, 62. 

■ — Cotton, 64. 

Biblical Bibliography. See Home, 

100. 

— Orme, 

lOI. 



Bibliography. Definition of, 3. 
Intellcftual and Material, 4. 

Cultivated in Italy, 4. 

— Germany, 4. 

— France, 4. 

— Great Britain, 

5- 

— United States, 



Repofitory, 62. 



• Value of exaggerated, 5. 

— — = One of Learning's beft 

Helps, 87. 

Bibliographer. Province and Du- 
ties of, 6, 7. 

Bibliographical Periodicals, hi. 

Bibliografia Italiana, 79, 83. 

od Elenco, &c., 80. 

dei Romanzi, 80. 

Bibliographic de la France, 71,112, 
Bibliotheca Americana, 56. 

Grcnvilliana, 88. 

Londinenfis, 66. 

Sacra, 62. 

Biography. See Octtinger's Bib. 

of, 1 01. 
Biographical Dictionaries, 105. 
Biographic Univerfellc, 75, 108. 
Blake's Biog. Didionary, 108. 
Blakcy's Angling Literature, 96. 
Blanqui's Econ. Politique, 96. 
Blaze's Bib. Muficale, 97. 
Blume's Iter Italicum, 47. 
Bohn's Catalogues, 10, 52, 63, 89. 
Boletin Bibliografico, 83. 
Book-Binding, 30. 
Book Trade in Germany, jj. 
Boffange's Catalogues, 7 1 . 

Ma Bib. Fran9aifc, 71. 

ct Fils Bulletin, 72. 

Barthes and Lowell's Cat- 
alogue, 86. 

Bofton. Private Libraries in, 47. 



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Botany. See Pritzel, 103. 
Bouchard, M. L., 93. 
Boucher's Bib. des Voyages, 97. 
Boulard's Traite de Bib., 1 2. 
Bourquelot's Con. de Ouerard, 74 
Bouterwek's Span, and Por. Lit., 83. 
Brewfter, David, 107. 
Bridgman's Bib. Legal Bib., ()-j. 
Britifh Mufeum Report, 45. 
Brown Univerfity, 47, 108. 
Briiggemann's View of the Clafficks, 

Bruillot's Dift. des Monogrammes, 

18. 
Brunet, J. C, 4, 78, 91. 
Manuel du Libraire, to. 



74, 8( 
Bruffels. 



113- 



Place of Intereft for Bib. 



Brydges' Brit. Bibliographer, 63. 

Reftituta, 6t,. 

Cenfura Lit., 63. 

Res Literari^, 80. 

Bryan's Dift. of Painters and En- 
gravers, 20. 

Bryce, James, 107. 

Buchon's Rapports fur les Bib. en 

France, 47. 
Buderi Bib. Script. Ger., 75. 
Biickner's Bib. Handbuch, 75. 
Bulletin du Bibliophile (Paris), 1 1 2. 

Beige, 113. 

Burton, J. H., 107. 

/^ABINETS and Galleries, 32. 
^"'^ Cailleau's Diftionnaire Biblio- 

graphique, 91. 
Callifen's Med. Lexicon, 97. 
Camurs's Obfervations fur la Clafs., 

Bib. dcsLivres de Droit, f)']. 

Cantu, Ingazio, 113. 



Caftro's Bib. Efpanola, 83. 

Catalogues, Claffified, 40. 

Alphabetical and de- 

fcriptive, 41. 

of Pub. and Private 

Libraries, 13, 105. 

Catalogue Syftem. See Jewett, 43. 

Caxton, William, 24. 

Chambers's Biog. Dift. of Scotf- 
men, 109. 

Chalmer's Gen. Biog. Dift., 109. 

Champollion's Syileme Hierogly- 
phique, 15. 

Chriftian Examiner, 62. 

Cinelli's Bib. Volante, 83. 

Clarke, Wm. Repertorium Bib., 47. 

Adam. Bib. Dift., 52. 

A. & J. B. B., Sue. of Sa- 
cred Lit., 97. 

Classical Language, Bibliography 
of, 51. 

Classification of Books, 40. 

Clavel's Cat. of Eng. Books, 63. 

Clement's Bib. Curieufe, 32. 

Clos, Abbe du, 91. 

Cogfwell, J. G., 5, 93, 95, 113. 

Alphabetical Index, 9. 

W. F., Newfpaper Re- 
cord, 98. 

Connechy, J. M., 108. 

Conftantin's Bibliotheconomie, 42. 

Cofter, J. L., 21. 

Cotton's Typ. Gazetteer, 24. 

Editions of the Bible, 64. 

Rhemes and Doway, 64. 

Creafy, Prof., 107. 

Cronaca. Giornale di Scienze, 113. 
Cryptonymous Books, 37. 

FJALRYMPLE'S Catalogue of 

Authors, 57. 
Danilh Bibliopraphies, 82. 



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Danzius, J. T. L., 104. 
Darling's Cyclopedia Bib., 98. 
Daunou's Analyze des Opinions, 

24. 
Dearborn's Text Book for Letters, 

'5- 

Dc Bry's Colleftions, 90, 94. 
De Bure's Bib. Inftruftivc, 90. 

Supplement, 90. 

Decanver's Cat. of Mcthodifm, 98. 
Delandine's MSS. de la Bib. de 
Lyon, 16. 

Memoires Bib. et Lit., 72. 

DclefTert'sMemoirefurlaBib.Roy., 

47- 

Projet d'une Bib. Cir., 47. 

Democratic Review, 62. 

De Morgan's Arith. Books, 98. 
Denis, Michael, 26, 27. 

Einleitung in die Biich., 1 2. 

Denis & Pincon's Nouveau Manuel, 

12, 90. 
Defeffart's Siecles Lit. de la France, 

De Vaines' Diplomatique, 17. 
Dibdin, T. F., 5,32, 82. 
— Bib. Decameron, 12. 

— Spenceriana, 24. 

^des Althorpian;E, 24. 

CafTano Catalogue, 25. 

Tour in England and Scot- 

land, 33. 
France and Ger- 
many, 33. 

Tntrodudlion to the Claf- 

ficks, 52. 
'- Library Companion, 91. 

Edition of Ames's Typ. 

Ant., 21, 23. 

Diftionnairc Bibliographique, 91. 

DiPLOMATICKS, 16. 

Dryander's Cat. Bib. J. Banks, 98. 
Dryer, M., 38. 



Duparcy's Bib. Militaircs, 99. 
Dupin's Bib. Choifie des Livres, 99. 

Manuel du Droit, 99. 

des Etudians, 99. 

Dupleffis, M. G., 93. 

Bib. Paremiologiqiie, 99. 

Dupont's Notice fur I'lmprimeric, 

25. 
Duties on Books, 69. 
Duyckinck's Cy. of Amcr. Lit., 61 . 



P^ADIE, Prof., 107. 

Early Printed Books, 22. 
Ebert, F. A., 5, 46. 

Zur Handfchriftcnkundc, 

16. 

Bildung des Bibliothekars, 

42. 



Gen. Bib. Dift., 79, 91. 

Edwards, Edward, 45, 51. 
Ellis's Books on Angling, 99. 
Elmes's Bib. Didlionary, 99. 
Elzevirs. See Berard, 23, 96. 

— Picters, 28. 

Encyclopedia Britannica, 51. 
Engelmann's Bib. ClafTicorum, 53, 

76. 

Gcographica, 75, 

der S. WifTen- 

fchaft, 75. 

— Philologica, 76. 

— Juridica, 76. 

Mcchanico-Tech. 

76. 
— Med.-Chirurgica, 

— CEconomica, 76. 

— Vcterinaria, 76. 

— Zool. et Palcon- 

tol., 76. 

^ — der Forft und 

Jagd, 76. 



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Engelmann's Bib. der Handlungf- 
wiflenfchaft, ']6. 

der neueren Spra- 

chen, 76. 
M. G. Lithographic, 



English Bibliographies, 62. 

Engraving, 19. 

Enflin's Bib. Clafficorum, 53. 

Entomology. See Percheron, i o i . 

Ernefti's Fabricius, 53. 

Erfch, J. S., 5, 81. 

La France Lit., 72. 

Handbuchder Deuts. Lit., 

-Phil. Lit., 77. 



46. 



and Griiber's Encyklopadie, 



Efchenburg's Manual, 53. 

Evan's Con. of Hume's Learned 

Societies, 65. 
Everett, Edward, 47, 105. 
Eye of the Library, 41. 

PABRICIUS, J. A., 38. 

Bib. Graeca, 53. 

— Latina, 53. 

Falkenftein's Buchdruckerkunft, 25. 

Faribault's Catalogue, 57. 

Farn, W. H., -](). 

Farnum's Glance at Private Libra- 
ries, 47. 

Fathers of the Church. See Clarke^ 

91- 
— Walch, 



104. 
Fergufon, Prof., 107. 
Fevret de Fontette, M., 73. 
Fielding's Art of Engraving, 20. 
Fine Arts. See Elmes, 99. 

— Godde, 99. 

— Weigel, 104. 

Fifke's Efchenburg, 53. 



Fliigel, G., 54, 

Foify'sEffkifurla Con. desBib.,42. 

Fontaine's Colleftions des Auto- 

graphes, 18. 

Manuel, 18. 

Fontanini's Bib. dell' Eloq. Ital, 80. 

Forbes's Manual of Med. Bib., 99. 

Fortia d'Urban's Syfteme de Bib., 

12, 42. 

fur I'Ecriture, 15. 

Fofs, Henry, 88. 
Fofter's Bib. of Book-keeping, 64. 
Fournier's Dift. de Bib., 34. 
Fraehn's Indications Bibliogra- 

phiques, 53. 
Free Library, Manchefter, 51. 
Freeling, F., 82. 
Freemafonry, 57. 
French Bibliographies, 71. 
Fry's Pantographia, 15. 
FiJrft's Bibliotheca Judaica, 54. 



Q.AIGNAT, L. J., 90. 

^"^ Galleries and Cabinets, 32. 

Gamba Da BaflTano, B., 5, 62, 78. 

Novelle Ital.. 

81. 

Tefti di Lin- 
gua, 81. 

Genealogy. See Sims, 103. 

General Bibliographies, 86. 

Geology. See AgafTiz, 95. 

Georgi's All. Biicher-Lexicon, 92. 

Gerges' Florigium Librorum rario- 
rum, 34. 

German Bibliographies, 75. 

Book Trade, ']']. 

Gibbon, Edward, 83. 

Gibbings's Index Expurgatorius, 39. 

Gildermeifter's Bibliotheca San- 
fcrita, 54. 

Ginguene, P. L., 81. 



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Girard's Bibliographia, 57. 
Girault's Bib. de France, 72. 

Paris, 72. 

Clay's Memoire fur les Bib., 47. 
Godde's Cat. Raifonne, 99. 
Gonan's Bib. de Lyon, 73. 
Gordon, Prof., 107. 
Gorton's Biog. Dift., 109. 
Gowans's Catalogue, 58. 
Graffe's Lehrbuchciner all. Lit., 92. 

Bib. Magica, 100. 

Graevius, J. G., 32, 

Greek and Latin Bibliographies, 

Great Britain. Bibliography of, 
62. 

Grenvillc, Thomas, 88. 

Library, 89. 

Greppo's Bib. des Hebreux, 48. 

Grefwell's Annals of Par. Typ., 25. 

Early Par. Greek Prefs, 25. 

Grcve's Hand und Lehrbuch, 3 i . 

Griffith's Bib. Anglo Poetica, 64. 

Grifwold's Poets of America, 61. 

— ■ ProfeWritersof Amer.,61. 

Gronovius, James, 32. 

Guichard's Notice fur Ic Spec. Hu- 
mans Sal., 34. 

Guizot, M., 45. 

Gutenberg, John, 21. 



T-IADJI-Khalfa's Lexicon, 54. 

Hain, Ludovicus, 32. 
Rep. Bibliographicum, 25. 



Hakluyt's Col. of Voyages, 5 8. 
Hallam's Lit. Hillory, 108. 
Hannett's Bibliopegia, 3 1 . 
Hannot's Index des Livres con- 

damnes, 39. 
Hanfard's Typographia, 25. 

Hiftory of Printing, 26. 

Harles' Fabricius, 53. 



Harris's Philogical Inquiries, 83. 
Hartfhornc's Book Rarities, 34. 
Haym's Biblioteca Ital., 81. 
Hawks, F. L., 107. 
Hebenibeit's Did. Aud. Claffico- 

rum, 54. 
Hedderwick, James, 107. 
Heinecken's Idee Generale, 20. 
Heinfius' Biicher-Lexicon, 77. 
Heraud, J. A., 108. 
Herbelot's Bib. Oricntalc, 54. 
Herbert's Ames, 23. 
Hcffc's Bibliotheconomic, 42. 
Heuflner, F., 113. 
Hinrichs' Verzeichnifs, 77. 
Hodgfon on Stereotype Printing, 26. 
Hoefer's Nouvelle Biog., 1 10. 
Hoffmann's Bib. Lexicon, 54. 

Handbuch, 54. 

Home, T. H., 5, 56. 

Introduftion to Study of Bib., 

10, 13, 105. 

Oudines for the Clafs. of a 

Lib. 43. 

Biblical Bib., 1 00. 

Hoyer's Lit. der Krieg., 100. 
Hoyois'sMufeeBib]iographique,34. 
Hume's Learned Societies, 65. 
Humphrey's Illuminated Books, 16. 
Hunter's Monaftick Libraries, 48. 
Huzard, M. J. B., 92, 93. 

ICELANDIC Bibliographies, 82. 

Index Expurgatorius, 39. 
^ Librorum Prohibitorum, 

Indian Books, Bib. of, 56. 
Inltrumental Mufick. SeeB!aze,97. 
Irving, Wafliington, 105. 
Ifidore's Col. of Canons, 94. 
Ifographic des Hommcs Celebris, 

18. 
Italian Bibliographies, 79. 



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JACKSON'S Treatife on En- 
graving, 21. 
Jamiefon, Robert, io8. 
Jefuit Writings. See Backer, 96. 
Jewett, C. C, 5, 10, 102, 114. 

On the Conftruftion of 

Catalogues, 43. 

Notices of Pub. Libraries 

in the U. S., 48. 
Joecher's Gelehrten-Lexicon, 109. 
Johnfon, Samuel, 87. 

John, Typographia, 26. 

Journal de la Lit. de France, 73. 
Julius's Bib. Germano-Glottica, 78, 
Juntas. See Bandini, 23. 
Jurifprudence. See Bridgman, 97. 
— Camus, ()1 . 

— Dupin, 99. 

I^AYSER, C. G., 81. 

Biicher-Lexicon, 78. 

Kennet's Bib. Primordia, 58. 

Klupfel, Karl, 78. 

Knight, Charles, 108. 

Kohl's Defcriptive Catalogue, 58. 

Koop's Hillorical Account, 1 8. 

T ABORDE'S Etude fur la Con. 
^-^ des Bib., 48. 
Laborde's Organifation des Bib., 48. 
Laire, F. X., 32. 

Index Librorum ad 1500, 

26. 

Lalande's Curiofites Bib., 34. 

J. de. Bib. Aftronomique, 

100. 

Lancetti's Pfeudonimia, 38. 
Langlois's Calligraphic, 17. 
Leblanc's Catalogue, 92. 
Legal Bibliography. See Bridgman, 

91' 

— Camus, 97. 

— Pupin, 99. 



Leipfic Book Fairs, ■]']. 

Lelewel's Obfervations fur la Bib., 

84. 
Lelong's Bib. Hiftorique, 73. 

Bib. Sacra, 100. 

Le Normand's Manuel de Papiers, 
19. 

duRelieur, 31. 

Library Economy, 40, 

■- — Edifices, 46. 

• Hiftory and Statifticks, 46. 

Librarian's Convention, 49. 
Libri, M., 45. 
Literary World, 61. 
Livermore, George, 47, 

on Pub. Libraries, 48. 

London Catalogues, 65, 66. 
Low's Pub. Circular, 68, 114. 

Britifh Catalogue, 66. 

Lowndes, W. T., 5, 62, 78, 81. 

Bibliographer's Manual,66. 

Ludewig, H. E., 114. 

Lit. of Amer. Local Hift., 

58. 
• Ab. Lan- 
guages, 58. 
H. Zur Bibliotheconomie, 

43- 
Lyons, Bib. Hift. de. See Gonan, 73. 

\/[ ABILLON'SDiplomatica, 17. 
-^ -'■ Machado's Bib. Lufitana, 84. 
Macray's Manual of Brit. Hift., 6-]. 
M'Culloch's Lit. of Polit. Econ., 

100. 
MafFei, F. S., 17. 
Magie. See Grafle, 100. 
Maittaire, Michael, 27, 32. 

Annales Typographici, 26. 

Malone's Cat. of Eng. Poetry, 61. 
Management of Libraries, 40. 
Manne's Nouveau Recueil, 38. 
Manfon, James, 108. 



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Manuscripts, i6. 
Martin's Bib. Cat., 67. 

L. Plan d'une Bib., 93. 

Mafonick Books, 57, 58. 
Mathematicks. See Murhard, loi. 
Mathematical Sciences. See Pog- 

gcndorfF, 102. 
Medical Bibliography. See Atkin- 
fon, 95. 

See Callifen, 97. 

— Forbes, 99. 

— Ploucquet, 102. 

— Roy, 103. 

Meerman's Origines Typ., 27. 
Meerfch's Recherches, 27. 
Mclzi's Bibliografia, 80. 
Memorias de Lit. Portugueza, 84. 

— la Real Acad., 84. 

Mendham's Account ofIndexes,39. 
Index Lib. Prohibito- 

rum, 39. 
Methodifm. See Decanver, 98. 
Methodirt Quarterly, 62. 
Meufel's Bib. Hillorica, 58, 93. 
Michel's Bib. Anglo-Sax., 67. 
Military Science. See Ayala, 96. 

. Duparcg, 99. 

■ — Hoyer, 100. 

Witzleben, 

105. 
Molbech's Bibliothekwiflenfchatt, 

43- 
Monograms, 18. 
Montfaucon, B. de, 32. 

Bib. Manufcriptorum, 17. 

Mortillaro's Studio Bibhographico, 

13- 

Mofs's Manual of Clafs. Bib., 55. 
Moule's Bib. Heraldica, 67. 
Munfell'sTyp. Mifcellany, 58. 
Muratori, L. A., 32. 
Murhard's Bib. Mathematica, loi. 
Mufical Bibliography. SeeBlazc,97. 



'^AGLER'S Kunftlcr-Lexicon, 

''-^ 21. 

Namur, M. P., 7, 1 1. 

Bib. Paleo.-Dip.-Bib., 9. 

Manuel duBibliothecaire, 44. 

Hift. des Bibliotheques, 48. 

Napierfky's Schrift. und Gelchrten 

Lex., 85. 
Vcrzeichnifs dcr Schriftcn, 

84. 
Napoleon, 38. 

National Bibliographies, 55. 
Natural Hillory. SeeDryander,98. 
Naumann's Scrapeum, 1 14. 
Neuer Anzeiger, 113. 
Neufchateau, M. F. de, 11. 
Newfpaper Record. Sec Cogge- 

fhall, 98. 
New York Review, 62. 
Nichol, Prof., 108. 
Nichols's Lit. Anecdotes, 67. 
Nicolfon's Hift. Libraries, 68. 
Nodier's Dcfcript. Raifonne, 93. 
Normand. SeeLeNormand 19,31. 
North Amer. Rev., 62. 
Norton's Cat. of Amer. Pub. for 
1855, 59. 

Lit. Almanac and Reg., 49, 6 1 , 

Gazette, 61, III. 

Norwegian Bibliography, 82. 
Nyerup & Kraft's Almindelight, 84. 

QETTINGER'S Bib. Biogra- 
^-'^ phiquc, 1 01. 
Oriental Languages, 51. 
Orme's Bib. Biblica, loi. 
Ofmont's Did. Typographiquc, 34. 
Otiley's Hill, of Engraving, 21. 
Otto's Ruillan Lit., 85. 
Owen, John, loi. 

pANZER, G.W., 32. 

— Annales Typographic!, 27. 



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Papworth's Mufeums, Libraries, &c. 

49. 
Paris on Cataloguing, 44. 
Parifet, M., 93. 
Parker, Theodore, 47. 
Pafchal's Bib. Smithiana, 23. 
Patrillick Literature. See Clarke, 97. 

See LeLong, 100. 

Walch, 1 04. 



Payne & Fofs's Bib. G 



renviuiana. 



Peignot, Gabriel, 5, II. 

Rep. Bib. Univ., 10. 

Dift. Rais.deBibliologie, 13. 

Manuel Bibliographique, 13. 

Recherches fur les Auto- 

graphes, 18. 

Hift. du Parchemin, 19. 

Eflai fur la Relieure, 3 i . 

■ Curiofites Bibliographiques, 

35- 

Varietes, Notices, &c., 35. 

Rep. de Bib. Speciales, 35. 

Livres condamnes au Feu, 40. 

Manuel du Bibliophile, 44. 

Bibliographique, 49. 

Souvenirs relatifs^ a Biblio- 

theques, 49. 

Percheron's Bib. [_Entomologique, 

lOI. 

Periodicals, Bibliographical, hi. 
Periodical Literature. Poole's Index 

to, 102. 
Petit-Radel's Recherches fur les Bib., 

49. 
Petzholdt, Julius, 113. 

Anzeiger, 10, 92, 113. 

Bib. Bibliographica, 11. 

Katechifmus der Bib., 44. 

Addreffbuch Deutfcher Bib., 

50. 

& Reichard's Ankiindigung, 



44. 



Pieters' Materiaux pour Annales des 
Elzevirs, 28. 

Annales de I'lmp. Elzeviri- 

enne, 28. 

Piranefi, G., 32. 
PlaciiTheatrumAnonymorum, &c., 

28. 
Plouquet's Lit. Medica, 102. 
Pneumaticks. SeeGrafTe, 100. 
PoggendorfF's Biog. Handvvorter- 

buch, 102. 
Pogliali's Tefti di Lingua, 81. 
Pollh Bibliography, 82. 
Political Economy. See Baftiat, 96 

— Blanqui, 96 

M'CulIoch 

100 

— — ■ Wohl, 1 05 

Poole's Index to Period. Lit., 102 
Portfolio, 62. 

Portuguefe Bibliography, 82. 
Prefcott, Wm. H., 47, 105. 
Preufker's Bibliotheken, 50. 
Printing, 22. 

Pritzel's Thefaurus Lit. Bot., 103. 
Prohibited Books, 39. 
Proverbs. See Dupleffis, 99. 
Providence Merchant, 59, 82. 
Pseudonymous Books, 37. 
Publifher's Circular, 61, 68, 114. 

QUERARD, J. M., 62, 78, 81. 
^^ Ecrivains Pfeudonymes, 

, 38, 74. 

La France Litteraire, 73. 

• Lit. Fr. Contemporaine, 

74- 
■ Les Supercheries Litteraires, 

74- 

"n ARE BOOKS, 31. 

-'•^ Four Claffes of. 

See Clement, 33. 



Oo 



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Rccke & Napierfky's Lexikon, 85. 
Reid's Bib. Scoto-Ccltica, 68. 
RcifFcnberg, Baron de, 113. 
Rcnouard's Annales des Aide, 28. 

• — Eftienne, 28. 

Catalogue d'un Amateur, 

94. 
Report on Publick Libraries, 45. 
Rich, Elihu, 107, 108. 

Obadiah, 81. 

Catalogues, 59, 160. 

Richter's Kurze Anleitung, 45. 
Rimbault's Mufical Cat., 68. 
Ritfon's Bib. Poetica, 69. 
Rode, C. R., III. 

Rolland's Confeils pour for. une 

Bib., 94. 
Roorbach's Bib. Amer., 60. 
Rofs' Bouterwek, 83. 
Rofe's Biographical Did., iio. 
Rottermund, H. W., 109. 
Roy's Bib. Medica, 103. 
Ruprecht's Bib. Theologica, 78. 

— — — Philologica, 78. 

— Meaico-Chirurgi- 

ca, 78. 
Ruffian Bibliographies, 82. 

C ACRED LITERATURE. See 
•^ Clarke, 97. 

LeLong, 100. 

Salva's Catalogue, 85. 
Sanfcrit Literature, 52. 
Santa's Conflruzione di pub. Bib., 

50. • 
Santander's Origin of Printing, 28. 

Di£l. Bibligraphique,35. 

Catalogue, 94. 

Savage's TreatifeonPrintingLik, 19. 

Dia. of the Art of Print- 

ing, 29. 

James. The Librarian, 69. 

Schelhorn. Amoenitates Lit., 36. 



Scheler, Auguftus, 113. 
Schmidt's Gallerie Dcutfcher pfcud. 
Schrift., 38. 

• J. A. F., Bibliothckwiflen- 

fchaft, 45. 

G., Bib. Hiilorico-Geog., 78. 

Schocll's Lit. Ancienne, 55. 
Schrettingcr's Bibliothekwiffen- 

fchaft, 45. 

Handbuch dcr Bib., 46. 

Schultens' Herbclot, 54. 

Schumann, L., 78. 

Schwab's Wegweifer durch die Lit. 

dcr Dcutfchen, 78. 
Schweigger's Handbuch der Klafs. 

Bib., 55. 
Sears, Barnas, 47. 
Scrapeum, 48, in, 114. 
Shakfpcriana, 64, 70. 
ShurdcfF's Decimal Syftem, 46. 
Silliman's Journal, 62. 
Silveftre's Paleographie, 16. 
Sims's Handbook toB, Mufcum, 50. 

Index to Pedigrees, 103. 

Gcnealogill's Manual, 103. 

Singer's Rechcrches into the HilL 

of P. Cards, 21. 
Smith's Provincial Dialcdls, 69. 

Wm., Did. of Gr. and Ro- 
man Biog., 1 10. 

Smithfonian Inftitudon, 48. 
Society of Jelus. See Backer, 96. 
Southern Quarterly Rev., 62. 
Southeby's Principia, 29. 
Spalding, Prof, 108. 
Spanish Bibliographies, 82. 
Spencer, Earl, 24. 
Special Bibliographies, 87, 95. 
Speculum Humana; Salv., 34. 
Spooncr's Dift. of Painters, &c., 22. 
Swainfon's Taxidermy, 104. 
Stevens, Henry, 62. 

Bibliographia Amer., 62. 



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Stevens's Cat. of Amer. Books, 62. 

My Englifh Library, 6g. 

Stcphani. See Grefvvell, 25. 

— Renouard, 28. 

Stower's Printer's Grammar, 29. 
Strickland, H. E., 95. 
Stukkenberg's Verfuch, 85. 

'X^ALBOY'S Trans, of Adelung, 

52. 
Taylor's Trans, of Ancient Books, 
19. 

Wm. Survey of Ger. Poetry, 

79- 
Techner's Bulletin, 1 13. 
Ternaux-Compans, M. H., 59. 

Bib. Amer., 60. 

Bib. Afiatiquc, 1 04. 

Theological Lit. See Darling, 98. 

— — Walch, 104. 

— — Winer, 105. 

Thimm's Lit. of Germany, 79. 
Thomas's Hiftory of Printing, 29. 
Thomfon, Prof, 108. 
R. D. Illuftrations of 

Br. Hift., 6g. 
Ticknor, George, 5, 47. 

- Hift. of Spanilh Lit., 85. 
Timperley's Ency. of Lit. and Typ. 

An., 30. 
Tirabofchi, Girolamo, 5, 81. 
Touftain & Taffin's Diplomatique, 

17- 
Tromel, Paul, ^3, in. 
Triibner's Bib. Guide to American 
Books, 56, 61. 

Bib. Glottica, 58. 

Tuckett's Specimens of Binding, 31. 
Turner, W. W., 58. 



U 



PCOTT's Britifh Topography, 
69. 



l/" AINE'S Di6l. de Diplomatique, 

.}7- 
Valliere's Catalogue, 36. 

VanPraet, J. (Died Feb. 5, 1837.) 

Cat. des Livres imp. fur 

Velin, 36, 37. 

Van der Weyer, M., 45. 

Ventouillac's French Librarian, 74. 

Voght, John, 34. 

Cat. Librorum rariorum, 37. 

Voifm's Bib. on Belgique, 5 i . 

■ — — Europe, 5 i . 

Voyages. See Boucher, 97. 



VyAILLY'S Pal6ographie, 16. 
Walch's Bib. Theologica, 
104. 

■ Patriftica, 104. 

Walker's Art of Book-Binding, 31. 
Walpole's Cat. of Noble Authors, 

70. 
Warden's Bib. x'\mer., 61. 
Warmholtz's Bib. Hiftorica, 86. 
Watt, Robert, 5. 
-^ — Bib. Britannica, 70. 
Webfter, Daniel, 47. 
Wehr. Von Papier, &c., 19. 
Weigel's Kunftlager-Cat., 104. 
Wey, Francis, 93. 
Wilfon's Shakfperiana, 70. 
Willett's Memoir on Printing, 30. 
Winer's Handbuch der theol. Lit., 

105. 
Witzleben's Militar Lit., 105. 
Wohl's Staatswiflenfchaft, 105. 
Wolf's Monumenta Typographica, 

30- 

Bib. Hebrsa, 55. 

Wornum, R. N., 108. 
Wright's Biog. Britannica, 70. 
Writing, 14. 



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yENKER'S Manuel dcBib. Ori- 
^ ent., 55. 
Zeno, Apoftolo, 80. 
Zoology. See Agaffiz, 95. 



Zoology. Sec Swainfon, 104. 

Zuchold, E. A., 78. 

Bib. Hiftorico-Nat., 78. 



PART SECOND 



LIBRARIES 



Note. — The Index to this Part confilb chiefly of Names, the Titles 
of Books being omitted. 



A CQUISITION of Books in 
^-^ Britifli Mufcum, Modes of, 

263-268. 
Adelung, Fricdrich, 240. 
Albert V. Duke of Bavaria, 228, 

229. 
Alfieri, Count Vittorio, 167. 
Appleton, Samuel, 163. 
Ardebil of Perfia, Library of, 238. 
Arrangement of Books and Maps 

in Britifh Mufcum, 271-278. 
Aftor, John Jacob, 152, 185, 187. 

William B., 186, 197, 198. 

x'\sT0R Library, Sketch of, 185-199. 

gANCROFT, George, 178. 

Banks, Sirjofeph, 251. 
Barnard, Sir F. A., 251, 257. 
Bates, Jofhua, of London, 206, 207, 

208, 209, 213, 214, 215. 
Batowflikoff, a Ruffian Writer, 237. 
Beck, T. Romeyn, 177. 
Bentley, Richard, 130. 
Berkeley, Bilhop, 121, 130. 
Berlin Royal Library, Sketch of, 

242-245. 



Bernard, Gov., of Mafs., 121. 
Bibliographical Colledions in Al- 
bany State Library, 178- J 79. 

Aftor Library, 197. 

Brown Univ. Libra- 
ry, 137- 
St. Peterfburg Li- 
brary, 236. 
Bibliotheque du Roi. See Imperial 

Library at Paris, 218-227. 
Bigelow, John P., 202-203, 208. 
Binding of Books in Britifli Mufcum, 

285-287. 
Birch, Rev. Dr., 250. 
Boston Athen/eum, Sketch of, 
161-168. 

Public Library, Sketch of, 

200-217. 
Bowditch, Nathaniel, 162. 

N. L, 208. 

J. Ingerfoll, 208. 

Brcvoort, Henry J., 186. 
Brimmer, George W., 163. 
Brifted, Chs. Aftor, 187. 
British Museum, Sketch of, 246-" 



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Bromfield, John, 163. 
Brown, Nicholas, 139, 140, 141, 
152. 

John C, 141, 143, 147. 

James, 208. 

Brown Univ. Library, Sketch of, 

137-148. 
Brunei, J. C, 190. 
Burney, Charles, 251. 

pABOT, Edward C, 166. 
^-^ Calamy, Rev. Dr., 130. 
Capen, Edward, 201;, 217. 
Cataloguing of Books in Britilh 

Mufeum, 269-271. 
Catharine of RulTia, 236. 

— de Medicis, 218. 

Chambers, Sir R., 243. 
Charlemagne, 255. 
Charles I., 244, 250, 253. 

v., VII. and VIIL, 218. 

Clap, Prefident of Yale College, 1 3 1 
Clinton, De Witt, 1 74. 

-^ George, 181. 

Cogfwell, J. G., 125, 186, 187, 

190, 197, 199. 
CoUinfon, Peter, 156. 
Congress Library, Sketch of, 169- 

173- 
Cook, John, 174. 
Cofta, Solomon Da, 250. 
Cotton, Sir Robert, 247. 
Cracherode, C. M., 251, 258. 
Cuftis John, 167. 

■p)AVIE, Sir John, 130. 

*-^ De Bures, The, 219. 

DeKay, Dr., 178. 

De Thou, the Hiftorian, 218. 

Devezac, Augufte, 178. 

Dibdin, T. F., 221. 

Digby, Sir Kenelm, 121. 

Dorn, M. of St. Peterlburg, 241. 



Dubrofifki, Colleftion of, 237,240. 
Drummer, Jeremiah, 130. 
Durer, Albert, 231, 

P^DWARDS, Arthur, 247. 

Morgan, 139. 

Eliot, Jared, 131. 
S. A., 121. 

Mr. ofBofton, 178. ' 

Elliott, John, 132. 

Ellis, Sir Henry, 260. 
Everett, Edward, 203, 204, 205, 
213. 

"PETH, Ali, 239. 
Francis I., 218. 
Frankfort City Library, View of, 

22/. 
Franklin, Benjamin, 149, 150, 151, 

154. 
Frederick II., 243. 

r>ALE, Dr., 121. 
^^ Gallatin, Albert, 169. 
Garrick, David, 250. 
George II., 253, 259. 

III., 250, 251, 257. 

IV., 252. 

Gilman, Daniel C, Librarian of 
Yale College, in Place of Her- 
rick, refigned. 

Gore, Chriftopher, 124, 152. 

Gnaideech, a Ruffian Writer, 237. 

Grace, Robert, 150. 

Gray, Francis C, 122, 162. 

Grenville, Hon. Thos., 252, 254. 

Guild, Reuben A., 148. 

tJALLECK, Fitz-Greene, 186. 

Halley, Edmund, 130. 
Hargrave, Francis, 251. 
Harley, Edward, 248. 
. Robert, 248. 



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Harvard, John, 121. 

Harvard Univ. Library, Sketch 

of, 1 19-127. 
Henri IV., 218. 
Herrick, Edward C, 136. 
Hoarc, Sir R. C, 252. 
Hollis, Thomas ift, 121, 122, 123, 

• 2d, 123. 

3d, 123. 

■ John, 123. 

Nathaniel, 123. 

■ Thomas Brand, 124. 

Hollis & Shapleigh Fund, 122. 
Hopkinfon, Francis, 150. 

IMPERIAL Library at Paris, 
''■ Sketch of, 218-227. 

at St. Peterfburg, 



Sketch of, 234-241, 
Ireland, W. H., 143. 
Irving, Wafhington, 186. 
Ives, Mofes B., 143. 



JARVIS, S. F., 144. 
JefFerfon, Thomas, 167, 170. 
Jewett Charles C, 141, 143, 214, 

215, 217. 
John of Bruges, 218. 
Johnfon, Rev. Dr., 131. 

Sir William, 182. 

Jones, J. Winter, 260, 261. 



TZEIMER, Samuel, 154. 

Kent, Chancellor, 174. 
King, James G., 186. 
Kingfley, Prof., 133. 
Kirby, Charles K., 213. 
Korf, Baron, 237, 240. 
KrilofF, a Ruffian Writer, 237. 

T ACROZE, Vcyffiere de, 2 
"^ Lawrence, Abbot, 208. 
Lazzarine, Francis, 151. 



Lcdyard, Henry, 178. 

Lee, Richard Henry, 167. 

Lewis, Addin, 133. 

Library Economy of the Britifli 

Mufeum, 263-287. 
Lightfoot, Dr., 121. 
Linfly, Noah, 132. 
Lockwood, Samuel, 131. 
Logan, James I ft, 150, 158. 
■ 2d, 159. 

William, 159. 

John Smith, 159. 

Hannah, i 59. 



Loganian Library, Sketch of, 1 5 8- 

160. 
Lord, Daniel Jr., 186. 
Louis I., 229. 

XIV., 219. 

Luther, Martin, 244. 

]V/[ADDEN, Sir F., 260. 

Marking and Shelving of 
Books and Maps in Britifh Mu- 
feum, 271-278. 

Maynard, Sir John, 121. 

Mazarin, Cardinal, 226. 

Meehan, John S., 173. 

Melot, Anicet, 225. 

Metcalf, Theron, 138. 

Michael, Dr., 252. 

Mitchell, Dr., 169. 

Moll, Baron dc, 251. 

Morrifon, Robert, 252. 

Morfe, Jedediah, 132, 167. 

S F. B., 132. 

Munich Royal Library, Sketch 
of, 228-233. 

Munfell, Joel, 178, 179. 

Mufgrave, S. W., 251. 



543. ^EW Reading Room of Britifh 
Mufeum. See Reading Room. 



Newton, Sir Ifaac, 130. 



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Nicho], George, 251. 
Nightengale, James, 208. 
Niles's Regifter, 170. 
Nortoiij John T., 132. 

OLOUEEN of St. Peterlturg, 
236. 
Onflow, Arthur, 250. 
Oigood, Samuel, 144. 

DANIZZI, Antonio, 250, 260, 

^ 264. 

Paris, M. Pauline, 225. 

Paris Imperial Library, Sketch of, 

218-227. 
Pafkevitch, Prince, 235, 238. 
Paftorius, the Friend of Penn, 155. 
Peabody, the London Banker, 152. 
Pearfon, R. W., 249. 
Peirce, Benjamin, 123. 
Penn, William, 155, 159. 
Perkins, Alfred E., 132. 

James, 162, 163. 

Thomas H., 162. 

Pertz, Dr. of Berlin, 244. 
Philadelphia Library Company, 

Sketch of, 149-160. 
Philhps, Jona., 207, 208. 
Pickering, John, 144. 
Pierfon, Abraham, 129. 
Poole, Wm. F., 168. 
Poulfon, Zachariah, i 50. 
Public Library of Boston, Sketch 

of, 200-217. 

QUINCY, Jofiah, 123, 164. 
Jr., 201. 

T> FADING ROOM in Britifli 
Mufeum, Service of, 278-282. 

New Reading Room, Sketch 

of, 260-263. 



Redwood Library at Newport, 

View of, 217. 
Registration of Britifh Mufeum, 

282-284. 
Rice, Mayor of Bofton, 213. 
Richards, WilHam, 139. 
Rodd, Thomas, 143. 
Royal Library at Berhn, Sketch 
of, 242-245. 

■ Munich, Sketch 

of, 228-233. 
Roxburghe, Duke of, 225. 
Ruggles, S. B-, 186. 

Thomas, 131. 

Ruflell, Samuel, 129. 

CALTZER, Alexander, 188. 
St. Petersburg Imperial Li- 
brary, Sketch of, 234-241. 

Seaver, Benjamin, 204, 206. 

Shakfpere, William, 143. 

Shattuck, Lemuel, 201. 

Shepard, Mrs. S. I. K , 208. 

Sibley, John L., 127. 

SilHman, Prof, 132. 

Sinclair, Sir John, 167. 

Sloane, Sir Hans, 247,253. 

Smirke, Sir Robert, 248. 

Smith, Conful, 251. 

Smith, Lloyd P., 160. 

Smithfonian Inftitution at Wafhing- 
ton. View of, 173. 

Sparks, Jared, 178. 

Spencer, Earl, 221, 252. 

Stamping of Books in Britifti Mu- 
feum, 268. 

Steele, Sir Richard, 130. 

Steigenberger, of Munich, 228. 

Stiles, Prefident of Yale Col., 134. 

Street, Alfred B., 184. 

Stroganoff, Count, 236. 

Suwarrow, of Ruffia, 235. 



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T^AYLER, John, 174. 

•^ Tchartorifki, Princes, 239. 
Thomafon, George, 250. 
Thorndikc, Auguftus, 162, 167. 
Ticknor, George, 157, 162, 214. 
Timothee, Louis, 150. 
Townfend, Ifaiah, 177. 
Tyrwhitt, Mr., 251. 



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RMENETA, Don Geronimo, 

145- 

Uvvaroft, Count, 237. 

TT^ALERIUS Maximus, 256. 
^ Vattemare, M., 180, 201. 
Vellum, Books printed on, 221. 
Volkhonfky, Prince, 235. 

\l/ADSWORTH, Daniel, 132. 
^^ Wales, H. W., 122. 
Walter, Dr. of Wafliington, 171. 
Ward, Samuel Jr., 186. 



Ward, Thomas W., 162. 
Warden, D. B., 177. 
Wafliington, Augulline, 167. 

Mary, 167. 

George, 166, 167. 

• Martha, 167. 

Wayland, Francis, 139, 140. 
Webb, Thomas H., 144. 
Whitney Eli, 132. 
Williams, J. D. W., 202. 
Winthrop, Robert C, 202, 213. 
Wolcott, Oliver, 132. 

Wood, George, 178. 

YALE, Elihu, 130. 

Governor, 130. 

Yale College Library, Sketch of, 
128-136. 

Young, Arthur, 167. 

yALUSKI Family, 235. 
"^-^ Count John, 237. 




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